Emily Mortimer Quotes

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

Emily Mortimer

• True
• Friend
• Car
• Husband

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Experience
  • Issue
  • U.S.

• I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Chance

• There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Control
  • Economy
  • Possible

• For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Play

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• This love is silent.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Love Is

• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Thing
  • Director
  • Cut

• Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • You
  • Dog
  • Human

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Dark

• Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Know

• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Society
  • Group
  • Selfishness

• India has a very good tradition in tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Tradition

• When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • American
  • Help
  • Game

• Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • True
  • Sweet

• Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

  

  Kenneth Koch
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Experiences

• Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Poetry

• It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Father
  • Path
  • Model

• I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • True
  • Friend
  • Car