Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes

You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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• When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • You
  • Always
  • Try

• Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Business
  • Fashion

• Stopping bad things is a significant public service.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Bad
  • Service
  • Public Service

• When you know what you're passionate about and what you want to do, just go for it and own it.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Know
  • Go For It

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Courage
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to stuff that's really on the other end of the spectrum entirely.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Live
  • Home

• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Man
  • Opinion

• I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • World
  • Music
  • Interesting

• I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren't good. I mucked around, you know, a phase everyone went through.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Game
  • Study

• Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mother

• Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!

  

  Manute Bol
  • You
  • Tell
  • Nobody

• But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Voice
  • Act
  • Depend

• When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Started

• Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion He asked me out, therefore he pays is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Men
  • Rejection

• The top rockers have a mythic aura about them, the 'superstar,' and that's a basically unhealthy state of things, in fact it's the very virus that's fucking up rock, a subspecies of the virus I spoke of earlier that infests our culture from popstars to politics.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Rock

• You will die - and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything - or cease asking.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Die

• Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • inspirational

• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Walk
  • Chocolate
  • Eating

• I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.

  

  Deborah Copaken Kogan
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Fail to plan, plan to fail.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Plan
  • Fail

• You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas