Elizabeth Strout Quotes
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
Quotes to Explore
-
Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
-
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
-
I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
-
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
-
Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
-
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
-
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
-
Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
-
I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
-
My life is not perfect.
-
I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
-
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
-
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
-
I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
-
Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
-
Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
-
As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
-
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
-
In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
-
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
-
A bride is a bride the first time around. The white dress and the white veil are symbolic. So many people are breaking the rules that people don't know what the rules are.
-
I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
-
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
-
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
