Madeleine Wickham Quotes

#1. My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella it's fast, all-out comedies, such as the 'Shopaholic' series.

Sophie Kinsella

#2. What did you drop?"
"Nothing. Stand aside, Empress."
"So you were hiding."
He set his jaw, and I noticed his face was freshly shaved. It made his skin look soft.
"I've places to be," he growled. "So if you don't step outta my way, I will move your imperial figure myself.

Susan Dennard

#3. I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

Johnny Weir

#4. What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.

Elliott Abrams

#6. IPods just made music about how many songs you could have on you at all times.

Timothy Simons

#7. Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible.

Marion Vernoux

#8. Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

Sara Teasdale

#9. Australians say 'pissed off.' Pissed means drunk. Piss is alcohol. To take the piss
that means to send someone up, make fun of them.

Geraldine Brooks

#10. Knowing a person isn't like knowing a string of facts. It's more like...a feeling.

Madeleine Wickham

#11. My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Haruki Murakami

#12. Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

Gerard Way

#13. Just go with it. It won't hurt.'
I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

Neil Gaiman

#14. You are like the actor who, at the end of the play, with a final word, reveals that he is a different character than the one he appeared to be playing.

Edouard Leve

#15. Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.

Amit Ray