Gwendoline Riley quotes

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.
-- Gwendoline Riley

#Running #Water #Running Water

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.
-- Gwendoline Riley

#Intimate #Credo

I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time.
-- Gwendoline Riley

#Feels #Furious #Knows

Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.

Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.

I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too. You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to

The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.