Lesley Howarth Quotes

You're special, not strange. You should be glad. ~ Lesley Howarth

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood. ~ Lesley Howarth

Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down. ~ Lesley Howarth

It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think? ~ Lesley Howarth

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely. ~ Lesley Howarth

Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them. ~ Lesley Howarth

Nothing ever really goes away. ~ Lesley Howarth

Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once. ~ Lesley Howarth

The power to do anything was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong? ~ Lesley Howarth

His knowingness made him cold. ~ Lesley Howarth

Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid. ~ Lesley Howarth

Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy. ~ Lesley Howarth

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect. ~ Lesley Howarth

But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them. ~ Lesley Howarth

That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have? ~ Lesley Howarth

Please," he said, "you don't understand. My first time on my won. I don't know what I'm doing, and I can't have it on me, and I don't know what's right when you know you can choose and it's turned out fine today, how do you do? ~ Lesley Howarth

I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people. ~ Lesley Howarth

When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important. ~ Lesley Nicol

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that. ~ Lesley Garrett

I can't tell people what flag to fly. ~ Lesley Stahl

This is Rome. Treachery and opportunism and backstabbing run in her veins like lifeblood, and if you've never had to live your life constantly looking over your shoulder, then you have no idea how dangerous it can be. ~ Lesley Livingston

The strict mother she & her brother had grown up with was body-snatched. "...Who are you? What did you do with my mother? ~ Lesley Stahl

Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'. ~ Lesley Hazleton

I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing! ~ Lesley Nicol

Well. I think it's safe to say that, in my absence, the power grabbing and backstabbing and political intrigue has officially reached an all-time Otherworld high.
~ Lesley Livingston

In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance. ~ Lesley Manville

Some people find it easy to be good when the going is good but lack the fortitude for hardship. ~ Lesley Nneka Arimah

When I was eight, it was clear I was a very good singer. ~ Lesley Manville

When winter comes, spring can't be far behind ~ Lesley Downer

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports. ~ Lesley Visser

I hate that thing that if you are over 45, and you're going to be on telly or make films, you have to do all this stupid stuff to your face. I would no more let someone stick a needle in my forehead than fly to the moon. ~ Lesley Manville

... everything was fresh, green and particularly beautiful. Afternoon light, filtering between remnants of monsoon clouds, picked out gullies and spot-lit patches of forest and scrub on the convoluted ridges of the rim of the Kathmandu Valley. Or, after a rainstorm, wisps of clouds clung to the trees as if scared to let go. Behind, himals peeked out shyly between the clouds. ~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

She soars with eagles and navigates by rainbows. ~ Lesley Hazleton

My heart is a schizophrenic. One sentence is about how I hate him. The next is about how much I love him. It goes on like that, back and forth, pacing. ~ Lesley Anne Cowan

For many years, I picked the wrong men, or they picked me. I think if you don't feel attractive or worth something as a woman, you attract men who don't really look after you. That's what happened to me, but I realise that those relationships were like a journey, helping me to learn something about myself. ~ Lesley Nicol

Kelley-"You know that story ends horribly, right?"
Sonny-"What did Shakepeare know? He probably would have rewritten that bit if he'd thought about it. ~ Lesley Livingston

My poor cooking is legendary among my friends. ~ Lesley Nicol

Love isn't blind. It's blinding. ~ Lesley Livingston

Now, tomorrow you got to put on a happy face, not for me, nor May, or anyone else, just for yourself. 'Cause that's a magic trick I learned a long time ago, if you look like you're happy, you soon get to be. ~ Lesley Pearse

And so with Hemingway's writing, he famously wrote to one of his publishers - he said, you don't need a high school education to enjoy my writing. And it's going to titillate the masses. I mean, anybody can relate to it, but the style is so revolutionary that it will titillate highbrow critics, which it did. ~ Lesley M.M. Blume

People can be so cruel to the different. ~ Lesley Kagen

I like the way Nepalis point by pouting their lips; they reckon pointing with a finger is rude. ~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

Everything is working. ~ Lesley Visser

He wasn't there to save her. She must know how to save herself. ~ Lesley Lokko

I completely think of myself as sexual. Completely and utterly. Probably more so than I did when I was 30. I don't know why. I'm very comfortable with how I look. I'm absolutely committed to never having anything done to my face. I would never let anyone near me with a Botox needle. ~ Lesley Manville

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age. ~ Lesley Nicol

I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it. ~ Lesley Gore

Some things you just have to take on faith and believe in at the risk of getting hurt. It's one of the things that the Fair Folk will never understand, and it's something that sets us apart from them. The fact that each and every time we believe in each other we take a risk. Because we know that it might NOT be the truth. But we also know that it MIGHT be. ~ Lesley Livingston

Most things in life sound better than they are except for blackmail. ~ Lesley Kagen

I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine. ~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

Time is like this boat that you are on. You can't see who is steering it, but it is taking you to weird unknown and sometimes awful or terrifying places. ~ Lesley Choyce

I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.' ~ Lesley Ann Warren

red-trunked rhododendron trees looked like so many writhing russet snakes. In some places the forest floor was carpeted crimson with fallen rhododendron petals. ~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in. ~ Lesley Manville

No, I loved you because I couldn't not. I loved you because it was what I was put on this earth to do." I ~ Lesley Jones

I must have been about four years old when Russia took hold of me with giant hands. That grip has never lessened. For me, the love of my heart, the fulfilment of the senses and the kingdom of the mind all met here. This book is the story of my obsession. In her essays, The Sentimental Traveller, Vernon Lee wrote of her emotion for Italy thus: 'There are moments in all our lives, most often, alas! during childhood, when we possess the mystic gift of consecration, of steeping things in our soul's essence, and making them thereby different from all others, for ever sovereign and sacred to us.' So Italy became to her – so Russia to me. ~ Lesley Blanch

Yes. And also, if it's okay by you, I'd like to shut up now ... Or possibly just go somewhere and swallow my face. ~ Lesley Livingston

This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or even to the Ludus Achillea... but to our sisters who stand here with us. Our sisters. This is the oath that binds us all, one to one, all to all, so that we are no longer free. We belong to each other. We are bound to each other. In swearing to each other, we free ourselves from the outside world, from the world of men, from those who would seek to bind us to Fate and that which would make us slaves. We sacrifice our liberty so that, ultimately, we can be truly free. ~ Lesley Livingston

She felt his arms tighten around her, as they spiraled up, borne aloft on wings that were dark as the night, bright as a new star. ~ Lesley Livingston

When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be. ~ Lesley Gore

Living in the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next. ~ Jane Wilson-Howarth