Drury Quotes

#1. I really like people. But I don't know how it will end. - Author: Tom Drury

#2. Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company. - Author: Peter Drury

#3. Twelve years ago I made a mock
Of filthy trades and traffics;
I considered what they meant by stock;
I wrote delightful sapphics;
I knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
I supped with fates and Fairies
Twelve years ago I was a boy,
A happy boy at Drury's. - Author: Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#4. Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous. - Author: Peter Drury

#5. It's not Adventureland, but you write some poems, the leaves move, and you get laid sometimes. Tom Drury's Pierre Hunter on life. - Author: Tom Drury

#6. The Mommy Wars, as they stand today, serve as an effective check on the ambitions of the American mother. The phenomenon keeps women in a perpetual state of guilt, shame and inadequacy, and does so without involving anyone but wealthy white women. - Author: Shannon Drury

#7. I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers. - Author: Tom Drury

#8. I think I'm a love agnostic - not sure, one way or another, if it really exists. - Author: Joan M. Drury

#9. Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane? - Author: Sebastian Faulks

#10. I think the book that really kind of woke me up a little bit when I was starting to write was 'Winesburg, Ohio' by Sherwood Anderson. I was in grad school at Brown, going for an M.A. in creative writing. Those stories seemed to me to be doing away with pretty writing. - Author: Tom Drury

#11. The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident. - Author: Peter Drury

#12. I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well. - Author: Tom Drury

#13. People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by. - Author: Allen Drury

#14. You won't accomplish anything sitting around wishing. You've got to do things. - Author: Allen Drury

#15. Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous. - Author: Joan M. Drury

#16. I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case. - Author: Tom Drury

#17. Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such. - Author: Nevill Drury

#18. It's best to keep one's resentment to oneself. - Author: Allen Drury

#19. Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together. - Author: Tom Drury

#20. Whatever is to come has to be faced alone and with as much strength one can muster. - Author: Allen Drury

#21. Nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing ... can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom. Freedom ... is all that makes men great. It is all men have to live for. Without freedom, what good is life? - Author: Allen Drury

#22. Alan Smith ... very much a striker, by reputation ... and by fact - Author: Peter Drury

#23. I like the writing life, but it's not something that always makes enough money. - Author: Tom Drury

#24. When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else. - Author: Joan M. Drury

#25. PIerre tried to work up a stormy heart of romantic loss about breaking up with Rebecca. It gave him license to drink and brood with hard eyes, which he found interesting. - Author: Tom Drury

#26. The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy ... and also a prolific author. - Author: Nevill Drury

#27. It had to go in, but it didn't. - Author: Peter Drury

#28. Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a blue flash of pure mental health. - Author: Tom Drury

#29. The crowd ... a cacophony of colour - Author: Peter Drury

#30. My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook ... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred. - Author: Jessie Mueller

#31. Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone. - Author: Allen Drury

#32. The outrageous madonna/whore duality that we mock in Women's Studies 101 has its subtle, and very insidious, expression in the good/bad mother paradigm that we grapple with every day of our lives. - Author: Shannon Drury

#33. I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel. - Author: Tom Drury

#34. Reality is where your consciousness is located - Author: Nevill Drury

#35. I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable. - Author: Tom Drury

#36. International Law has never stopped men in their pursuit of conquest or revenge. - Author: Allen Drury

#37. Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism. - Author: Nevill Drury

#38. My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums ... And then at one point, the bookmobile started coming to town. That was really cool. I mean, that was when I read my first Raymond Carver story. I think that was probably 1969 or so. I must have been 13. - Author: Tom Drury

#39. The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries. - Author: Joan M. Drury

#40. The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn't the end of the story it's the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it. - Author: Lisa Kleypas

#41. I really, honest to God, didn't know what to read until I was out of college and living in Boston, and someone said, 'Well, why don't you read Hemingway?' And I thought, 'OK. I guess I'll try this Hemingway fellow.' - Author: Tom Drury

#42. Be aware that you are always invulnerable to personal attacks inspired by envy and spite. - Author: Allen Drury

#43. In her broadcasts, speeches, and newspaper columns, ER would challenge conventional thinking about women and work. "Isn't it a fact that women have always worked, often very hard?" ER asked an audience in 1936. "Did anyone make a fuss about it until they began to get paid for their work?"10 - Author: Stephen Drury Smith

#44. The best thing to do now, is to do the very best you can. - Author: Allen Drury

#45. If you become a creative writer with the idea that you are going to make a whole lot of money, then maybe this isn't the best choice for you. - Author: Tom Drury

#46. The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs. - Author: Tom Drury

#47. Whenever I have tried to make a character bad, they end up being good in some way. - Author: Tom Drury

#48. My life in the town I grew up in was much quieter than 'The End of Vandalism.' Part of the reason I think I wrote it was because it was too damn quiet when I was young, and I wanted people to come out and talk. And they do. There's so much dialogue in 'The End of Vandalism.' - Author: Tom Drury

#49. A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one. - Author: Peter Drury

#50. What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker. - Author: Peter Drury

#51. Louise closed her eyes. She could not define what she was feeling but knew no other way to express it than to say that she loved him. So that's what she said. It occurred to her that you only get glimpses of love, your whole life, just bits and pieces. - Author: Tom Drury

#52. Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels. - Author: Shadia Drury

#53. What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I imagine, so I become - and this is the very essence of magic. - Author: Nevill Drury