Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.

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• Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Party
  • Too Much

• I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Food
  • Evil
  • Personality

• The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Chinese

• It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Long
  • Home

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Enemy
  • First

• I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Father
  • Me
  • Kind

• I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Past
  • Peace
  • Dad

• I'm a dork!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Dork

• Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Dance

• We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • American
  • Leadership

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • People
  • Country
  • Bad

• I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.

  

  Chantal Sutherland
  • Good
  • Hope

• The Universe is never conspiring against anyone.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Universe

• A lot of people think pitchers, and they just think throwing and that's where all the power comes from. It's really not. It starts from the ground up. If you have a strong base, the legs will actually do the work and build all the torque and power you need to throw. So if you have weak legs at the end of the year, that's not good.

  

  Jason Hammel
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it's like, 'You're not doing enough in your life if you're not making someone angry.' And I'm like, 'Man. But my life - I seem to help people get somewhere, so am I not? Should I be more aggressive?' That's the way my inside voice sounds.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Good
  • May
  • Silly