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Stills Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
- I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled…
- and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
- Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old…
- One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In…
- Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on…
- But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are…
- Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said…
- There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.
- When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive.…
- My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a…
- I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.
- These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or…
- Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on…
- I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line…
- After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.
- This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of…
- Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by…
More Stills Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden