Lynne Reid Banks quotes

“The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...”
-- Lynne Reid Banks

Source : Lynne Reid Banks (2010). “The Secret of the Indian”, p.139, Yearling

#People Quotes #Longing Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.”
-- Lynne Reid Banks

Source : Lynne Reid Banks (1995). “The Secret of the Indian”

#Fashion Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath with their thrilling sea-going adventures! A wonderful story, full of bold mice, good and wicked, who will show you what courage really means.”
-- Lynne Reid Banks

#Moving Quotes #Heart Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.”
-- Lynne Reid Banks

Source : "TV news in the 50s was more thrilling than The Hour" by Lynne Reid Banks, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2011.

#Life Changing Quotes #Acting Quotes #Female Quotes

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

“Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.”

Source : "Sculpting in Time". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986.

“Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.”

Source : "A life in art: Anselm Kiefer" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.

“... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.”

“Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.”

“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.”

“A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.”

“I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.”