Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.

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• One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Try

• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Like
  • Scene
  • Theater

• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Always
  • Photographer
  • Vogue

• We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Everyday

• I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

  

  Raekwon
  • Problem
  • Successful
  • Cats

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • True
  • Friend

• However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • People
  • Find
  • Hard

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Tradition
  • Direction

• Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Thoughts
  • Dog
  • Speak

• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Doing
  • Lose

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Game
  • Clarity

• There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Doing

• For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

  

  Avi Arad
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I'm a jeans person; I love Abercrombie. My shoe collection is composed mostly of Chucks and a few pairs of girly ones.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Love
  • Jeans
  • Girly

• You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • People
  • World

• Growing up in Vegas, over time you get to see shows like Tom Jones, Wayne Newton, I mean, The Rat Pack ran Vegas way, way back, and I'm a huge fan of that whole era and vibe.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.

  

  Amity Gaige
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • People
  • Up
  • Music