Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States, but I think that has a lot more to do with my love of world records and reference books than a love of serving my country.
Elizabeth McCracken
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
M. J. Rose
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
Natalie Goldberg
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt Disney
I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
Paige VanZant
I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
Abu Bakar Bashir
I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
Yolanda Adams
There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
T. B. Joshua
Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
Kate del Castillo
There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
Raf Simons
I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
Vance Joy
Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
Laura Amy Schlitz
All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.
J. C. Ryle
People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.
Jason Statham
not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.
Freya Stark
They really need to know much more about where the food comes from - how to grow it and cook it, how to make consumer choices that are good for the environment and the local economy.
Jane Powell
Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one's responsibilities and be willing to make sacrifices for one's country - as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, "If the country is good enough to live in, it's good enough to fight for." With privilege goes responsibility.
Eugene B. Sledge
I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States, but I think that has a lot more to do with my love of world records and reference books than a love of serving my country.
Elizabeth McCracken
