Marjorie Holmes Quotes
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.Marjorie Holmes
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
Daniel Boulud -
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson -
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
Zubin Mehta -
Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
Rachael Ray -
I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
Barack Obama
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
Ban Ki-moon -
I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
Daniel Bruhl -
I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
Hari Kondabolu -
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
Edmund Phelps -
You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
Victoria Pendleton -
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
Candace Bushnell -
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
Zosia Mamet -
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
Maeve Binchy -
Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
Caitlin Moran -
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Nancy Lopez -
I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
Karen Elson
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I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.
Sam Worthington -
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
Walter Isaacson -
There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.
Madeleine de Souvre -
The ideal engine of a 3-D game is an intricate and elegant construct of code that allows players to speed through solidly built virtual worlds. The engine allows every picture on a monitor to be drawn there quickly enough to convince hand and eye that it is instantaneous.
Marc Laidlaw -
Not a red rose or a satin heart.I give you an onion.It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.It promises lightlike the careful undressing of love...I am trying to be truthful.
Carol Ann Duffy -
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
Marjorie Holmes