Marion Bailey Quotes

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

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• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Country
  • Enemy

• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Love
  • Spoiled

• It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Literature

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • You
  • Saying

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Project
  • Originally

• Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Wanted

• On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Change

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, ‘Oh my god, you’ll never make it; oh my god, you’re not bright; you could never do this’—that’s one person. I can’t tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • People
  • Matter
  • Actors

• If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!'

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Pride

• If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

  

  Bob Hope
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Game

• Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Done

• In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

  

  Marion Bailey
  • People
  • Reading