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

• 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 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

• I am alive when your fingers are.

  

  Anne Sexton

• Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Nature

• Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Trust

• When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Thought
  • First
  • Rapper

• One who by himself is mild enough and void of all offence will become terrible and fierce by being in bad company, and will most cruelly take the life of many men, and would kill many more if they were not hindered by bodies having no soul, that have come out of caverns - that is, breastplates of iron.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Men
  • Bad

• Chocolate is one of the world's most beloved discoveries, and when we need a quick boost of energy and endorphins, chocolate is the go-to treat.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • World
  • Energy
  • Chocolate

• 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