Gloria Gaynor Quotes

Well, for street clothes, a lot of what I wear is Jones New York. I am well-endowed in the derriere, and they can handle that.

Gloria Gaynor

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• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Nature
  • Thoughts

• The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Inspiration
  • Respond

• What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Creation
  • Research
  • Farming

• I hate birthdays.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Hate
  • Birthdays

• When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Talking

• He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Sides
  • Both
  • Both Sides

• Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Water
  • Skin
  • Cells

• Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann.

  

  Otto von Bismarck

• Happiness is The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Life
  • Exercise
  • Excellence

• 'Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,' asserted the Tin Man. 'Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Action

• I live in a 9 million dollar turd.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Live

• Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up
  • House
  • Girl

• My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Up
  • Creativity

• After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • River

• Michael Weiss and Todd Eldredge and I all competed against each other. Even though I'm older than them, we did cross over a little bit.

  

  Kurt Browning

• Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Passion
  • Ignorance
  • Persistence

• The world is your stage. Make your mark.

  

  Karen Civil
  • World

• Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Trying

• The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

  

  Dennis Ritchie
  • Work

• As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews and perspectives encounter one another in the marketplace of our global village. It is now clear that our future sustainability on this planet calls for radical advances in our rational and human capacities to negotiate the powerful forces between worlds as the human family moves towards a sustainable global civilization.

  

  Ashok Gangadean
  • Civilization
  • Advances
  • Global Age

• To understand the future properly, it's crucial that we listen to geologists as often as we do computer scientists.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Future

• I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Different
  • School
  • Style

• Well, for street clothes, a lot of what I wear is Jones New York. I am well-endowed in the derriere, and they can handle that.

  

  Gloria Gaynor