Maeve Binchy Quotes

I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.

Maeve Binchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MindBookRevengePersonVengeance

You just have to say over and over again: 'I am a director.' Nobody gives it to you. Nobody anoints you.

Jill Soloway

I AmYouNobodySayDirectorOver

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Sufjan Stevens

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By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

Rosalind Wiseman

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God bless my mother; I know you're looking down on me.

Ron Cephas Jones

MotherGodMeLookingYouDown

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

Judith Leiber

FamilyGoodAgeStoryAlwaysThread

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.

Douglass North

ChangeMePerformanceDevelopment

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

Chris Rock

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One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

Colin Greenwood

YearsBigUsBooksReadEffect

When I write, I'm talking to myself constantly to make sure that it sounds OK; it has kind of a nice rhythm and a nice jump to it.

Brian Azzarello

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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Alice Meynell

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The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.

Penny Junor

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I have friends who are scientists, strict materialists, who don't think science and religion are compatible, but I just think most of us - unless you're a strict atheist materialist, which there aren't many of - most of us believe in something outside the material world. And if you do believe that, I don't know how you're not obsessed with it.

Scott Derrickson

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