Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 5, 1884 - August 27, 1969

Topics

MoreDifferenceWithinBetweenThan

I'm actually much more of a rock player than many people think.

Joe Bonamassa

PeopleThinkRockMorePlayerThan

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

Michael Jackson

LovePowerChildrenMoneyParents

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

Meshell Ndegeocello

SufferingThinkFeelYouKnowWhere

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Stephen Jay Gould

ScienceCultureTraditionDoneHuman

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.

Spencer Abraham

BudgetWrongDoneWashingtonWay

Style is an expression of your individuality. Who you are and what your mood is, is what you wear.

Sonam Kapoor

StyleYouIndividualityMoodWear

When St-Pierre retired, it brought a lot of enthusiasm to the weight class, and things got shook up.

Robbie Lawler

EnthusiasmClassUpThingsWeight

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.

Mathieu Amalric

FunnyGoodFunSayingBelieveYou

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

Diane Nelson

BusinessCompetitionThinkingDoing

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

Christopher Nolan

SatisfactionDoneWayMy OwnOwn

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

Annie Baker

SilencePeopleTalkingDownPlay

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

Thomas P. Campbell

LiveChallengeWorldSeeingCrisis

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