"How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!"

--

Lionel Shriver

#Thinking Quotes #Lucky Quotes #Want Quotes

“I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.”
“Allah will intervene into our emotional states. He can give you tranquillity again; whether it's anxiety, fear, grief, anger - whatever emotion, whatever thing that's happened that has left you scared, Allah can remove that scar entirely.”
“The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.”
“I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.”
“What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.”
“People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.”
“After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.”
“All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.”

You may also like:

Emma Donoghue
Playwright
Ezra Miller
Actor
John C. Reilly
Actor
Kate Atkinson
Writer
Lynne Ramsay
Film director
Tilda Swinton
Actress
Tracy Chevalier
Novelist
Zadie Smith
Novelist
Seamus McGarvey
Cinematographer