Bess Myerson Quotes

I really don't like talking about diets.

Bess Myerson

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• I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Mother
  • Game
  • Strength

• You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Think
  • Sick

• Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Home
  • Lost

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Ideas
  • Become
  • Approach

• There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Inspired
  • Sweet
  • Girls

• I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Rock
  • Singing

• The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

  

  Karen Kain
  • City
  • Progress
  • Economic

• It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Better
  • Fat
  • Skinny

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

  

  Tablo
  • Like
  • Same
  • Saying

• I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Stories
  • Old
  • Functioning

• I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Step

• My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Memories

• Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Dad
  • Years
  • Better

• I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Long
  • Sunday
  • Forest

• Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • God
  • Coffee

• Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Beautiful
  • Angel

• I really don't like talking about diets.

  

  Bess Myerson