Sue Townsend Quotes

It's strange how interesting your dreams are, but when someone tries to tell you their dream you're just like "WHATEVER! Why don't you send me an e-mail so I can delete it?"

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

My big thing is people. I just love people in my life.

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff. Waxilliam: And? Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation. Waxilliam: Comfortable? Wayne: No. Boring.

There's nothing that annoys me more than people being horrible to my mates.

In many ways we are a dream for people, not a reality. That counts in your mind. It shows how much you can touch people, and as much as you can try to give those people somehow it is nothing compared to what they live in their own mind, in their dreams, for you.

Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility.

My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.

I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would just not care.

I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?

I think people need more to do in their life if my hair pisses them off.

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.

I don't really pay enough attention to what other people are doing.