Antonia White famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
-
I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
-
My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
-
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
-
There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
-
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
-
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
-
The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
-
I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
-
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
You may also like:
-
Alice Thomas Ellis
Writer -
Christina Stead
Novelist -
Mary Webb
Novelist -
May Sinclair
Writer -
Molly Keane
Novelist -
Nancy Hale
Author -
Rosamond Lehmann
Novelist -
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Novelist