Debbie Ford Quotes

Don't go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don't shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.

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• You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Judgment

• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • History
  • Me
  • Big

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Judge
  • Others
  • Ideals

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • Dresses
  • Girly

• I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Moment
  • Thing

• If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • You
  • Unique
  • Voice

• I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Long
  • Hand
  • Like

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Men
  • Experience

• I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Guitar
  • Down
  • Three

• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
  • Write

• What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movie
  • You
  • Funny

• I like 'Rocky Horror.'

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Horror
  • Rocky

• The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Men
  • Change

• Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.

  

  Katherine Boo
  • Help

• I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

  

  Kim Edwards
  • Taken

• I put myself on the same level as everyone else around me - from the directrice to the workman, everyone. Except my pets - they are the Kings; you must treat them like royalty.

  

  Azzedine Alaia

• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Help
  • Words

• Don't go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don't shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Power
  • Light
  • Eyes