Maeve Binchy Quotes

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

Maeve Binchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeGreatDayWorldEvery DayDone

My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'

Joe R. Lansdale

FatherCarPeopleLookingBlackYou

I'm not a runner. I don't run.

Joe Cornish

RunRunner

When I was younger, my mum used to dress me in, like, lime green leggings with a matching neon jumper and hair scrunch, so I'd say I've definitely progressed since then in terms of style.

Sophie Turner

StyleDressMeGreenHairSay

Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a distinct style, with variations in grammar, sentence structure, and voice.

Ronald Kessler

MorningStyleNightComputersVoice

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

Michael Jordan

ParentsYouGoKnowDoneNext

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

Mira Sorvino

PeopleFeelLookI CanSometimes

When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.

Julia Jones

New YorkGrowing UpNightNewStreet

Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.

Julia Roberts

MeLaughYouPersonShowLike

Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.

Alicia Vikander

MirrorDaySchoolToughKnowBeing

'Baahubali' gave me something that's really huge.

Prabhas

MeSomethingReallyGaveHuge

Today, we are not likely to need to organize local militias for our defense now we have something called the Pentagon.

Peter Bergen

TodayNowNeedDefenseSomething

My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

Muddy Waters

MeChurchGoSayGrandmotherShe

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