Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Little
  • Debate
  • Washington

• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Like

• You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • World
  • May
  • Experience

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Fun
  • Hate
  • Successful

• Everything I publish is for my readers.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Everything
  • Readers
  • Publish

• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • House
  • Small
  • Air

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Work
  • Different
  • Character

• I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Real
  • She
  • Think

• Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Enemy
  • Down
  • Hunting

• You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • Up
  • Worry

• It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

  

  John Berger
  • Book

• I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Work
  • Help
  • Age

• I'm a really good driver. I've been driving since I was very small, and I do like driving fast. I remember the first time my dad taught me that when you go into a corner you change down then put your foot right down on the way out. I'm very competitive about driving.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • Time
  • Good
  • Remember

• I believe, I truly believe, that humans will be living off of this planet, at some point in the future. It's inevitable for us, and it seems like a reasonable and realistic progression for us as a human race. We won't last on this planet - not forever.

  

  Andrew J. Feustel
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Forever

• If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Driving