Kindersley Quotes & Sayings

I sometimes think we should go back to the old days, when there was proper courtship, when people walked out together for weeks and weeks before anything happened. At least then you know something about each other, you have some solid ground to put your feet on. We're all so impatient now, we just want to get to the main action. — Tania Kindersley

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure! — Hanif Kureishi

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort. — Joel McHale

What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence, the violence itself, like consumption for the sake of consumption, hypermasculinity writ-large with an adapted potency. — Bocafloja

Providence turns the wheels of destiny. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities. — William Ellery Channing

Just say it, I beg. I need her to say it out loud. All I need is for her to admit she brought him here because she was hurt and scared. I need her to admit that there's an actual heart inside her chest. And that sometimes it beats for me — Colleen Hoover

Through the picture, I see reality; through words, I understand it. — Peter Kindersley

An accountant is always going to be an accountant, but a bad boy, now there's a challenge. If you love him enough, you might make him good. And this dangerous myth keeps its credence because some bad boys do turn good, after all. The problem is, no-one notices that the ones who change were just good boys pretending to be bad. They don't change, they revert. The leopard, he don't change his spots, but the sheep in in wolf's clothing, he can put on a new jacket and everyone goes all misty-eyed and talks about what love can do. — Tania Kindersley

It comes to us all. The moment when you realise that nothing but love will do. — Tania Kindersley

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation. — Mary Higgins Clark

You see? That's the point. It's all a big guess. They hope, they pray, they cook and garden and get a better job to pay the mortgage and read dirty books to keep bedtime interesting, but they don't know. There are no guarantees. Sometimes you just stop loving someone. You just stop. — Tania Kindersley

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot. — Terry Pratchett

We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich. — Bernard Goldberg

You lost weight? Look around, you'll find it. — Jerry Lawler

What I didn't know then was that you can't make people different, whatever you do. They have to do it themselves. — Tania Kindersley

To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist. — Diane Coyle

This is what a total breakdown must be, I though. You find yourself standing somewhere you should't be, doing something so out of character that you wonder if you've become someone else entirely. You've lost the plot, taken a wrong turning, jumped into a train whose destination is total lunacy — Gilly Macmillan

Maybe this is what we've needed all along. Distance from everything else, and closeness to each other. — David Levithan

For now I had five children by him: the only work perhaps that fools are good for. — Daniel Defoe

I see that,' I said. I thought I did. 'But every case is different. And anyway, you can't learn from other people's mistakes.'
'Not unless you're very clever,' said Dexter sadly. — Tania Kindersley