Top 82 Quotes About Sylvie
#1. Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.
Francesca Lia Block
#2. I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.
Sylvie Guillem
#3. I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.
Christian Louboutin
#4. All heat drained from my face. Holy shit. I hadn't even started my new job and already I was insulting my new boss ... right after sleeping with him. I was worse than Sylvie. "So you're - "
My speech eluded me.
"Jett Mayfield, the stingy SOB who just hired you." He held out his palm.
J.C. Reed
#5. We make a baby, Sylvie, we do it making love. Not fucking on the kitchen floor.
Kristen Ashley
#6. Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.
Kate Atkinson
#7. Oooh, intrigue?' Sylvie said playfully. 'Want to know a secret? I am someone else. Nobody knows the real me.'
Jess opened the door, sick of being toyed with, wanting to get away. Her voice was flat. 'You're a girl. It's the same for all of us.
Kirsty Eagar
#8. They all chose Indian names for themselves. Teddy was Little Fox ("Naturally," Ursula said). Nancy was Little Wolf ("Honiahaka" in Cheyenne, Mrs. Shawcross said. She had a book she referred to). Mrs. Shawcross herself was Great White Eagle ("Oh, for heaven's sake," Sylvie said, "talk about hubris").
Kate Atkinson
#9. I'm not what you want, Sylvie, I get that because it's the same for you as it is for me. I'm not what you want 'cause I'm what you need.
Kristen Ashley
#10. No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.
Sylvie Guillem
#11. Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far more comfortable giving a journalist "Tom Waits" the character, whose conversation is really a series of strange tales, learned or ad-libbed.
Sylvie Simmons
#12. Past performance is no indication of future results
Sylvie Fox
#13. Sylvie considered that children should be toughened up early, the better to take the blows in later life.
Kate Atkinson
#14. Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop - there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.
Christina Westover
#15. You think I'm a part of the Magicus Mundi?"
"You are telling me you're not? That being the new Lilith means nothing? That it's a human thing?"
"It's the quintessential human thing," Sylvie said. "The ability to say fuck you.
Lyn Benedict
#16. Long lazy days like these will never come again in your life. You think they will but they won't.' -Sylvie
Kate Atkinson
#17. She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.
Kate Atkinson
#18. I had wonderful love but I did not give back wonderful love, I was unable to reply to their love. Because I was obsessed with some fictional sense of separation, I couldn't touch the thing that was offered to me,and it was offered to me everywhere.
Sylvie Simmons
#19. I'm proud of my short hair. I don't think I will grow it long again.
Sylvie Meis
#20. Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries.
Sylvie Meis
#21. It's not about being someone you're not. It's about affecting others without saying a word." #TheImageOfLeadership
Sylvie Di Giusto
#22. I love Tom [Waits] for the same reason I love Leonard Cohen, which is that they are both one-offs, templates; they both seemed old, or at least dressed old when they were young; both kind of lived their careers backwards.
Sylvie Simmons
#23. Even though it felt completely natural - strangely enough - recording an album, I was very shy about making it public.
Sylvie Simmons
#24. She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.
Christina Westover
#25. It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.
Sylvie Meis
#26. Why can't they just mark it P for positive and a smiley for not pregnant?
-Sylvie
J.C. Reed
#27. ('The mistake,' Sylvie said, 'is thinking that love equates with happiness.')
Kate Atkinson
#28. Well, we all get on,' Sylvie said, 'one way or another. And in the end we all arrive at the same place. I hardly see that it matters how we get there.' It
Kate Atkinson
#29. Scars heal," Sylvie said. "Even the worst ones.
Kate Atkinson
#30. A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got to L'Histoire De Melody Nelson (1969) I was thinking, 'How can this man have died before I got to know his music?' I was a convert.
Sylvie Simmons
#31. Tell your father I never wanted to be a rose, only ever a night-scented gilliflower, and his moon was my sun.
Sylvie Grohne
#32. Screw you, John."
"Sorry, Sylvie. Can't - they frown on that kind of thing between step-siblings.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#33. As for you Walter Granden, get out of The Willoughby Palace once and for all, and don't come back ever again.
Sylvie Jones
#34. God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.
John Crowley
#35. The only things that got me through those years were a half dozen books I stole and through which I escaped reality time and again. I never tired of reading them, even reading them aloud to myself, until the characters between the covers became dear to me, like old friends.
Sylvie Grohne
#36. Either it was when I followed Sylvie across the bridge, and the lake claimed us, or it was when my mother left me waiting for her, and established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain. Or it was at my conception.
Marilynne Robinson
#38. Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.
Kate Atkinson
#39. Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France, about 60 miles from Bordeaux: wine instead of cocaine.
Sylvie Simmons
#40. Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.
Sylvie Guillem
#41. (" 'Sacrifice,' " Sylvie said, "is a word that makes people feel noble about slaughter.") But,
Kate Atkinson
#42. And there it is again, the look. There's no doubt about it, if Sylvie had a receipt, she would have taken him back by now; this one's gone wrong. It's not what I wanted.
David Nicholls
#43. That's what belief does, Sylvie. Whether something is true or not is beside the point.
John Searles
#44. To all the girls I've loved before,
To Sylvie, Sophie, Gabrielle and Lenore,
The raven may tap and crow upon my door,
But regardless of any plans of fate, or enticing lures,
I promise to love you forevermore.
M.K. Schiller
#45. You know what can make a person possessed, Sylvie? It's not Satan or Lucifer or any of that nonsense. Do you know what it is? . . . Love and hate. Greed. Revenge. Pride. Those things...
John Searles
#46. Born to love you, baby," he repeated. "Die lovin' you, my Sylvie.
Kristen Ashley
#47. They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge.
Kate Atkinson
#48. I'm not trying to ally myself with the rock stars of the universe.
Sylvie Simmons
#49. It's a miserable story!" said Bruno. "It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief."
"I haven't got it with me," Sylvie whispered.
"Then I won't cry," said Bruno manfully.
Lewis Carroll
#50. My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.
Jerry Hall
#51. In the prosperous household of Sylvie's childhood, Cook was called 'Cook' but Mrs Glover preferred 'Mrs Glover'. It made her irreplaceable. Sylvie still stubbornly referred to her as Cook.
Kate Atkinson
#52. But me, my jeans, tank, boots and socks, commando and braless, walked right out the door and, like we had many, many times before, we took on the night.
Kristen Ashley
#53. I'm always so glad,' Sylvie murmured, 'that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.'
'You're very good at being yourself,' Ursula said, aware that it didn't necessarily sound like a compliment.
'Well, I've had years of practice.
Kate Atkinson
#54. What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people? Sylvie said.
Kate Atkinson
#55. The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD
Kate Atkinson
#56. I didn't want to live in LA again, although I'd go back every couple of months to do an interview, usually with a heavy rock or metal band. And as the decade went on, so much of that scene had become totally corrupted by too much coke and money and silicone.
Sylvie Simmons
#57. Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality.
Chris Kraus
#58. Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie."
"Because life is an adventure, of course."
"I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.
Kate Atkinson
#59. My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.
Sylvie Guillem
#60. And again it's no fair play to t' French. Four o' them is rightly matched wi' one o' us; and if we go an' fight 'em four to four it's like as if yo' fell to beatin' Sylvie there, or little Billy Croxton, as isn't breeched. And that's my mind.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#61. Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women?
Kate Atkinson
#63. Yes, Mrs. Todd, a bonny, bouncing baby girl." Sylvie thought
Kate Atkinson
#64. Inhale when I inhale. Exhale when I exhale. Breathe with me,for two beating hearts breathing one breath together become one.
Christina Westover
#65. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
Lewis Carroll
#66. On the one hand, Sylvie loves the feeling of being like everybody else... on the other hand when she feels most like a freak is when shes getting away with not being one.
Barbara Gowdy
#67. Then and now, beautiful, I'll take you any way you come to me ... Any way. I love this Sylvie, I loved that Sylvie. I just love you, baby.
Kristen Ashley
#68. Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.
Roderick Townley
#70. I have something to check out. You ... guard the truck."
"Sylvie," Wright said, "no one wants this truck. I'm broke and on foot, and I don't want this truck.
Lyn Benedict
#71. In the end, if you can't trust each other, what's the point of being married?
Sylvie Meis
#72. Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing ... to stay alive for them.
Sylvie Meis
#73. When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.
Sylvie Guillem
#74. You did not need a God (Sylvie was an unconfessed atheist) to believe in sin. She
Kate Atkinson
#75. Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
Kate Atkinson
#76. Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character.
Kate Atkinson
#77. Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.
Sylvie Guillem
#78. I opened my eyes to the brightness of the sun. I groaned, feeling the migraine take over.
Sylvie Raven
#79. Dear Nancy,
I love your book The Crystal Navigator. You paint beautiful imagery throughout the pages of the story, and I loved learning about art through the adventures of Lucy. I'm honored to be one of the first readers of your wonderful story,
Sincerely,
Sylvie" (11 years old)
Sylvie
#80. She could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk.
Kate Atkinson
#81. It's always you and me." I nodded again and felt my lips quivering. He kept whispering, "Always me and my Sylvie, yeah?" "Yeah," I whispered.
Kristen Ashley
#82. They were wrong, he thought. She is better than Garbo.
Suzanne Stroh
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