Hansford Quotes

#1. We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

#2. You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

#3. I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

Audrey Tautou

#4. Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.

Nicola Sturgeon

#6. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

#7. I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

#8. The most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

#9. I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

#10. Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

#11. Your gaze fixated on him, my imagination deducing your conclusion. The agony sets in, this pain is unsurpassable with despair adjoining. But I can feel my heart knocking against my chest. So I'll attempt to push ahead for my behalf.

Anonymous

#12. I didn't know what the other guy was playing for, maybe just bragging rights. But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.

Khaled Hosseini

#13. The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

#14. Thinking: The world is. It just is.

Richard Flanagan

#15. My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.

Colin Mochrie