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)

    ...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)

    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)