Emma Donoghue Quotes

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

Emma Donoghue

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• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Me
  • Wind
  • Fans

• I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Bigger
  • Overcome
  • Hurdles

• Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Work
  • Petty
  • Awards

• 'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Record
  • Well

• Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • World
  • Way
  • Gymnastics

• The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • God
  • May
  • Marriage

• I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Like
  • Kid
  • Cheese

• My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Messages
  • Phone

• If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • TV

• As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Good
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Conversation

• The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Without

• If you've made enough money where you're not worried about the rent or survival, you start asking yourself why you're on this planet. Your point is to do the most good you can before you die - well, I could do more good if I didn't die.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Good
  • Money
  • Why

• Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy , and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Men
  • May
  • Beautiful

• 'They would say,' he answered, 'that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Lost

• There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Technology
  • Opportunities
  • Companies

• Literate man, civilized man, tends to restrict and to separate functions, whereas tribal man has freely extended the form of his body to include the universe. (p. 117)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Universe

• If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Trying
  • Problem

• No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Respect
  • Husband
  • Legend

• Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Enough

• I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

  

  Emma Donoghue