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Some Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman…
- What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy…
- When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong…
- Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you…
- The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
- With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
- There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult…
- Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You…
- I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best…
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to…
- I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what…
- People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can…
- The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at…
- I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would…
- The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all…
- Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion…
- She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some…
- She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do…
More Some Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong