Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Quotes to Explore
-
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
-
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
-
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
-
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
-
Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
-
I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
-
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
-
With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
-
I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
-
One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
-
It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
-
Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
-
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
-
I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
-
Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
-
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
-
I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
-
No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
-
I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.
-
How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
-
I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I'm very proud of my gravy.
-
I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.
-
'If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town...'
-
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
