Life Quote by Penelope Lively Download Open image ““And now I want to get yesterday down while I still have the awful taste of it”” — Penelope Lively ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life
“It was so good going down, but the aftertaste made you damn near hate it.” — Erika Robuck Copy Share Image
“Anything goes when everyone knows Where do you hide when their highs are your lows? So much, so hard, so long, so tired, Let… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
“Some days I can go nearly an hour without thinking of the taste of your mouth.” — Tim Seibles Copy Share Image
“I want the flavor of you on my tongue every fucking minute of the day.” — Melanie Harlow Copy Share Image
“Once you taste a little of the sweetness that life can be, there really is no going back.” — Liza Palmer Copy Share Image
“Some days I feel so bad that I have to drink; some days I feel so bad that I can’t.” — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Up until now, I've been very, very good. The image of self-control. I've wanted but I haven't taken. Haven't touch. Havent' tasted...” — Susan Sey Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian… It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,' 'Claudia, you must not answer back like that.' Argument, of course, is the whole point of history. Disagreement; my word against yours; this evidence against that. If there were such a thing as absolute truth the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share
“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake the tube and see what comes out. Chronology irritates me. There is no chronology inside my head. I am composed of myriad Claudias who spin and mix and part like sparks of sunlight on water. The… — Penelope Lively Copy Share
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“But her thoughts are often of the past. That evanescent, pervasive, slippery internal landscape known to no one else, that vast accretion of data on which you depend - without it you would not be yourself. Impossible to share and no one else could view it anyway. The past is out ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year,… — Penelope Lively Copy Share
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of Thetford, taken in 1868, in which William Smith is not. The street is empty. There is a grocer's shop and a blacksmith's and a stationary cart and a great spreading tree, but not a single human… — Penelope Lively Copy Share
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
