Louise Rennison Quotes

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.

What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.

Sad to say, multi-tasking is beyond me. I read one book at a time all the way through. If I'm reviewing the book, I have to write the review before I start reading any other book. I especially hate it when the phone rings and interrupts my train of thought.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day.

I'm "on" to monitor what is going on in Brewster. I do not post anymore. Just watching the idiots pontificate.

Even my countenance was watched at the Senate during Mr. Pinkney’s speech as I was afterwards informed by some of the gentlemen.

As soon as you start figuring out what you're going to do, something will interrupt it.

A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.

You can be watching the greatest film in the world, and if you hear your neighbor getting into a fight, you're at the window.

Representation is a sort of surveillance.

Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.