Explore more quotes by Janet Frame

"They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood."

Time, Help, Newzealander

"Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance."

Attention, Law, Newzealander

"Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day."

Electricity, Day, Wind, Newzealander

"From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth."

Darkness, Direction, Fact, First

"It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep."

Travel, End, Sheep, Newzealander

"Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood."

Time, Help, Newzealander

"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."

Argument, Destruction, Man, Will

"Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination."

Imagination, Writing, Years, Newzealander

"I like to see life with its teeth out."

Life, Newzealander

Exlpore more Attention quotes

"I need attention?No...I need victim....!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Attention, Regret, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Attention, Dress, Right

"N order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Attention, Mind, Emotion, Space

"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Attention, Wisdom, Truth, Today, Power

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

Susan C. Young, American Author

Attention, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"I think I'm a focus for international attention."

Sting, British Musician

Attention, Focus

"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Attention, Power, Truth, Regret, Inspirational

"Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was."

Peter Fonda, American Actor

Attention, Being

"We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves."

Gwen Ifill, American Journalist

Attention, Fact, Future, Running

"Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful."

Ninette de Valois, Irish Dancer

Attention, Will