Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

Elizabeth McCracken

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• Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Me
  • Nervous
  • Mouth

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Grow

• As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Boy
  • Famous
  • Run

• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• Singing is a prayer to me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Singing
  • Prayer

• George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Always
  • Said
  • Rip

• Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Help
  • Girl
  • Look

• I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Dr. Ron Paul
  • Dr. Ron Paul Lite

• The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Line
  • Limit

• This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • President
  • Recovery
  • Lead

• We see then, commodities are in love with money, but 'the course of true love never did run smooth'.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • True

• Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Live

• So I’ll walk the plank and I’ll jump with a smile.If I’m gonna go down, I’m gonna do it with style,and you won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess,'Cuz you've left me with nothing, but i've worked with less.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Style
  • Smile
  • Jump

• I've got seven MAC-11s, about eight .38s, nine 9s, ten MAC-10s. The shits never end, you can't touch my riches. Even if you have MC Hammer and them 3-5-7 bitches.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.

• You cut your life down for spite!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Life

• With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Unique

• Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Godfather

• Dilettanten haben nicht einmal in einer sekundären Kunst etwas Bleibendes geleistet, sich aber verdient gemacht um die höchste aller Wissenschaften, die Philosophie. Den Beweis dafür liefern: Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Die

• I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey's dog Moyo.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Because

• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Secret
  • Silent
  • Convince

• Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken