Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

Elizabeth Taylor

• Mother
• Eyes
• Engagement

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • True
  • Mother
  • Future

• My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Mother
  • Father
  • German

• Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Real
  • Fighting

• We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Never
  • Fight
  • Determined

• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Today
  • Eyes

• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • American
  • Mother

• My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Heart
  • She
  • America

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Rest

• When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • May

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Cultures

• Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

  

  Lara St. John
  • People
  • Children
  • Family

• Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.

  

  Karen Bender
  • She
  • Job
  • Mother

• Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Eyes
  • Learn
  • Ears

• I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Kids

• Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place you’ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Achievement

• In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

  

  James Garner
  • Opinion
  • California

• My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Mother
  • Eyes
  • Engagement