Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Quotes

I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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• At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Best

• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Home
  • Serious
  • Kid

• Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Future
  • Small
  • Community

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Best
  • Mistake
  • Teacher

• I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Time
  • Real
  • Age

• Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Love
  • Church
  • Movies

• The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Home
  • Kids

• I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.

  

  Babyface
  • Good
  • Different
  • Love

• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hate

• I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Westerns

• Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Everything
  • Half
  • Out

• No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Man
  • Changes
  • Been

• Non combattete mai con la religione, né con le cose che pare che dependono da Dio; perché questo obietto ha troppa forza nella mente degli sciocchi.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini

• For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Small

• At dawn they came and took you away. You were my dead: I walked behind. In the dark room children cried, the holy candle gasped for air.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Children
  • Dark
  • Air

• It's not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that's 'cause I don’t really give a fuck.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • People
  • Important

• In one war, there are a thousand wars within that war--each one private, singular, inaccessible, a fragment, a piece of a larger whole, parallel yet forever separate. And all we do in life is struggle with our impoverished efforts to put our war into words. I don't believe most of us ever succeed in our translations. It's an art most of us never conquer. That's why we argue with one another. We're like countries--each of us clinging to our separate histories. We're fighting one another about our translations, about what really happened. Which is another kind of war.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • War
  • Words
  • Fighting

• There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

  

  John McCain
  • Home
  • Chaos

• I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

  

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro