Maeve Binchy Quotes

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

Maeve Binchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 28, 1939 - June 30, 2012

Topics

AttitudeHappinessPastYourselfYou

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

Jim Rohn

HurtSilentWorstTryNeverKnowing

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

Angus Young

TimeRoadYearYouDoneOut

My father was very big on marriage.

Sidney Poitier

MarriageFatherBigVery

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.

Jayne Mansfield

DoingStill

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

Josh Turner

MyselfMeSingingAbleWaysExpress

Radiohead is one of the bands I appreciate. That's a great career band. It's not like critics are comparing us to a flash in the pan.

Joshua Ostrander

GreatAppreciateCareerBandCritics

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

Joseph Lancaster

EducationPurposeFindPartySaid

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

Jonathan Mostow

EnoughYouKnowDifficultSingle

I believe we are built to have thriving personal lives, and I think we're built to have thriving professional lives. Where the error occurs is when one becomes secondary to the other.

Chip Gaines

BelieveThinkProfessionalPersonal

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

Bruce Jackson

WarMediaWayUsAboutTells

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Publilius Syrus

LiveFireDoorYouNeighborNext

I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if you're doing it right, as opposed to writing a play and then waiting around for somebody else to complete it.

Sheila Heti

WorkArtWaitingWritingThinkYou

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