Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

Gabrielle Zevin

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Balance
  • Problems

• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Want
  • Now
  • Everyone

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Country
  • American
  • Political

• I've lived in New York for a really long time.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Long
  • New York

• I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Tough

• A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

  

  Iman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Career

• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Best
  • Beer

• We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Voice
  • Organization
  • Research

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Man
  • Know
  • Human

• After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Process
  • Security
  • Laws

• Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Hours
  • Heard

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Secret
  • Files
  • Bureau

• Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Law
  • Church
  • Dating

• Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.

  

  W Mitchell
  • Lost
  • Focus

• They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

  

  Louise Jameson
  • Feeling
  • Die

• New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful battery of scientific instrumentation ever brought to bear on a first reconnaissance mission.

  

  Alan Stern
  • High
  • Small
  • Powerful

• Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

  

  Charles Dance
  • Time

• My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Broken