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World Quotes by A. S. Byatt
- Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
- I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
- I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his…
- In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the…
- I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
- The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
- Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your…
- You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise…
- We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin…
- You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
- In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach