Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

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• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Person
  • Being
  • Laughter

• My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Effort

• I was always very focused on how people dressed.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • Always
  • Dressed

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

• You can't get dressed without good hair.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Dressed

• I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to find me.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Unique
  • Teammates

• I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.'

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Lake

• There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Done
  • Marriage

• We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Up
  • May
  • House

• I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.

  

  Vanna White
  • Enjoy
  • Dressed
  • Barbie

• In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Wanted
  • Everyone
  • Opera

• To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

  

  Leonhard Euler
  • Small

• So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush

• The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Poverty

• The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Stop
  • Lies

• Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
  • People
  • Women
  • Perfect

• Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

• Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Suffered
  • Opera
  • Indignity

• I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

  

  Nomy Arpaly
  • Divine
  • Inspiring
  • Atheist

• Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • America
  • End
  • Warrior

• Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.

  

  William Wegman
  • Persons
  • Pressure
  • Conversation

• Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. "Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman," she said, her voice rising to a wail, "sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Night
  • Voice
  • Sweet

• You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Opera
  • Dressed
  • Operation