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

• My sister died in Brooklyn.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Sister

• In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Reality
  • Poetry
  • Concrete

• On this subject any general rule is impossible ; love, like the chamelion, is coloured by the air in which it lives - and the finer the air the richer the colour. Some young ladies have a happy facility of falling in and out of love; their heart, like a raspberry tart, is covered with crosses.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Air

• The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Learning
  • Teachers
  • Describe

• How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Country
  • Rich
  • Now

• 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