Paley

Paley may refer to:

  • Albert Paley (born 1944), a modernist American metal sculptor
  • A. G. V. Paley, British army officer and first Chief of the Defence Staff of Ghana
  • Edward Paley (1823–1895), Lancaster architect
  • Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888), English classical scholar
  • Grace Paley (1922–2007), writer and peace activist
  • Henry Paley (1859–1946), Lancaster architect, son of Edward
  • Maureen Paley (born 1953), an American art dealer, based in London, England
  • Nina Paley American cartoonist, animator and free culture activist
  • Princess Olga Paley, second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
  • Raymond Paley (1907–1933), mathematician
  • Vladimir Paley (1897–1918), Russian poet, son of Olga
  • William Paley (1743–1805), Christian apologist and philosopher
  • William S. Paley (1901–1990), broadcaster
  • Paley, Seine-et-Marne, a commune of the Seine-et-Marne département, in France
  • Paley Street, a village in Berkshire

Famous quotes containing the word paley:

    “... people will sometimes say, “Why don’t you write more politics?” And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women is politics.”
    —Grace Paley (b. 1922)

    “The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.”
    —Grace Paley (b. 1922)

    “...I don’t have an inner drive to do as well as anybody else ... I have a great pleasure in writing and part of that is political and part of that is I’m surprised that I’ve done as well as I have. I really am just surprised.”
    —Grace Paley (b. 1922)