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Things Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones
- I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong…
- Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
- Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to…
- Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they…
- I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors,…
- You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find…
- Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every…
- If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual…
- In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born…
- This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As…
- You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you…
- All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you…
- Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!
- Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.
- Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
- I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle