Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

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• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Growth
  • Internet
  • Website

• Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • You
  • Fool
  • Genius

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Spirit

• I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • More
  • Year

• Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • English
  • Difficult
  • Criticism

• I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Health

• Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

  

  Ted McGinley
  • You
  • Easy
  • Hollywood

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Love
  • True

• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Lady
  • Seen

• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Growth
  • Inspired

• I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• I was born a singer. I need to do that.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Born
  • Need
  • Singer

• I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• In my family, I was loved, but only if I would fight this gay thing and not let it take over me. I would be loved unconditionally if I could be cured of my 'sickness,' but it certainly would not be OK if I couldn't.

  

  John Grant
  • Family
  • Gay

• I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Great
  • Girl

• I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Life
  • She
  • Movie

• I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • Job
  • Together
  • Reading

• Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

  

  Tim Finn Crowded House
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Proud

• To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Wife