Samantha Shannon Quotes

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

Samantha Shannon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 8, 1991

Topics

ImaginationChildWritingThinkWay

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

Joanna Lumley

LoveGreenDaddyOffMadeCardboard

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

John Gokongwei

FamilyFatherTeacherTimeMoneyMe

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

John Gourley

BestRock StarYouNewDoneRock

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

John Ortberg

CarBadDownEveryoneSeeHappened

Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.

Matthew McConaughey

HurtYouGunsReallyCameras

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

Anjelica Huston

ChildTelevisionBecauseIreland

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

Travis Kalanick

CarTimeYouOldYearsUp

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

Roger Moore

CharacterBondKindMayBritishHe

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

Rufus Wainwright

LoveMomentExperiencePainYou

As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.

Michael Owen

ExceptionalManyWaysYoungster

You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict about something, even if it's how to get to work in the morning and all of that.

Lorraine Hansberry

WorkMorningConflictThinkYouGo

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

PoliticsSoulReligionBodySame

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