Elizabeth McGovern Quotes

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

Elizabeth McGovern

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• I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Me
  • Simple
  • Clothes

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Love
  • Past
  • Road

• You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • You
  • Most

• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Quality

• Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Remember
  • Risk
  • Flying

• I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Strong
  • Amazing
  • Goal

• I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

  

  O. R. Melling
  • True
  • Early
  • Canada

• For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Love
  • Truth
  • War

• 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Friend
  • Loved
  • Chaos

• You don't work with Cloris Leachman, you experience her.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • You

• Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Personality
  • Humility

• If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Oh, god, where's the fuckin' bottle, you fuckin' whore?! DID HE FUCK YOU WITH THIS TOO?! Yes- OH, SHUT UP!!! HE DID EVERYTHING TO YOU, OH, GOD!!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God

• Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; ... I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. ... Blepyrus: But who will till the soil? Praxagora: The slaves. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Money

• There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Kiss

• Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Time
  • Why
  • Forever

• The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

  

  John Muir
  • Trying
  • Power
  • Game

• There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Women
  • Friends

• Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say, 'Okay, Carter girls, you're on!'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Stage

• Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Up
  • Why
  • Stop

• North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

  

  Elizabeth McGovern