Dodie Smith Quotes
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.Dodie Smith
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
Wayne Newton -
The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
Safra A. Catz -
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
Samantha Power -
People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
Warren Spector -
I know I look super young.
Rachel Bilson -
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
J. C. Watts
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
Octavia Spencer -
The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
Ira Glass -
During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
Pablo Sandoval -
It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
Carine Roitfeld -
Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.
J. D. Hayworth -
The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
Faye Wattleton
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I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
Nadia Giosia -
In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.
A. E. van Vogt -
'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'
Banksy -
Isaacs has a cheap Bic pen in his hand. He runs his fingers down the shaft, inverts it, runs his fingers down the shaft, over and over, in a motion that is mechanical rather than impatient.
J. M. Coetzee -
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
Eckhart Tolle -
Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.
Agatha Christie
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston -
With how much ease believe we what we wish!
John Dryden -
The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.
Jose Antonio Vargas -
I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.
Merle Haggard -
What I am interested in are the philosophies of the future. That's what drives me.
Leo Varadkar -
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Dodie Smith