Sillitoe Author Quotes

#1. There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.

Judy Collins

#3. Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

Sue Gardner

#4. Its Seventh Commandment, italicized by the authors, stated: Battles are beyond everything else struggles of morale. Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#5. What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Jonathan Swift

#6. Kaka' (literally, paternal uncle).

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

Craig Stone

#8. They did the whole lingering gaze thing, following it with the glancing-away, smiling-knowingly routine. She felt vivacious, a feeling she remembered, she was enjoying the self-confidence, the larkiness.

Freya North

#9. I'm not Meg tonight, I'm a 'doll'.

Louisa May Alcott

#10. Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

Peter Max