S. J. Perelman Quotes

I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.

S. J. Perelman

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• To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.

  

  Halima Aden
  • World
  • Work
  • Home

• We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Care

• If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Enjoy
  • Rose
  • Fragrance

• I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Past
  • Serious

• I'm one of those people who really liked high school. I know that might not be a popular thing to say, but it was fun, and I enjoyed my friends.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writers
  • Thriller
  • Favourites

• I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Book
  • Said
  • Event

• Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Time
  • Education
  • Decision

• If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • You
  • Find

• If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Up
  • Why
  • Death

• Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • God
  • Help
  • Finance

• Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Gift

• I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Write
  • Difficult
  • Finish

• I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Age

• What we are going to do is continue to grow our content spend on original programming, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of our total spending, because it's been working. It's been helping grow the brand; and more importantly, it's been driving viewing hours relative to how else we would spend the money.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Driving
  • Grow

• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hope

• The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Mind
  • Interesting

• I love the whole story of why something happened when it did and that’s what I put into the collections.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Why

• Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Imagination
  • Wonder
  • Beauty

• There is no first-hand account of what the Queen was saying or thinking, so my job as an actor is to interpret her circumstances.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Hand

• Many people don’t realise just what a valuable lifeline libraries can be.

  

  Jo Cox
  • People

• In the beginning no power differential existed between male and female. God empowered both with full rights and responsibility to rule outward over all creation, not over each other. As we know all too well, the fall changed everything, precipitating male rule over women and also the rule of some men over other men, a.k.a., patriarchy. Within patriarchy, women no longer derive their value from their Creator, but from men - father, husband, and sons. Within patriarchy, a woman's value is gauged by counting her sons.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • God
  • Power
  • Female

• You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Nature
  • Technology
  • Positive

• I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.

  

  S. J. Perelman