Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie Quotes

#1. He found and praised Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat. I said I found it too schematic and preferred The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He nodded, but not in agreement, it seemed, more like a therapist who now understood my problem.

Ian McEwan

#2. Both carried, despite their martial postures, an aura of sorrow, though ghosts of smiles flickered across their faces. They would have recognized one another from a mere turn of the head observed from hundreds of yards away on a moonless night in January.

Robin Oliveira

#3. A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man ...

Henri Matisse

#4. She is in a world of private dreams , not here with us !

Charlotte Bronte

#5. You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.

Jack Canfield

#6. I think the sentiment has not entirely shifted away from the belief that technology will continue to do well. But the believers are getting more and more worried about their beliefs.

Kate Warne

#7. In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles ... Contemporary or postmodernist art ... will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past.

Fredric Jameson

#8. In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

Gustav Stresemann

#9. There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.

Hisham Matar

#10. I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

Dolly Parton

#11. 5You e shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Anonymous

#12. Why have you always cared so much about these tiny worlds?" "Why have you never?" He had once. When she'd cared about him. He'd made himself small for her and walked in her manner, tending small things. But being small was so much more complicated than being God.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

John Bruton

#14. When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.

Nhat Hanh

#15. But you know the minute I graduated high school I never looked at a single math problem again, right? I send everything with numbers on it to my accountant, or I make Michael deal with it." "Great. Spoken like a true feminist,

Meg Cabot

#16. I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.

Reed Hastings