Mary C. Jones Quotes

New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.

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• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • People
  • Think
  • Escape

• People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Space

• If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

  

  Cale Yarborough
  • Lost
  • Completely
  • Racetrack

• Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Player
  • King
  • Hero

• I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Pain

• Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...

  

  Edmund White

• After a lifetime of living on hope because there is nothing but hope, one loses the taste for victory.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Hope
  • Victory

• Actually, I was gazing in my usual state of being half absent in my own world and half in the present. I have usually been able to 'retire' in this way. I was also thinking that my life was tied up with the instrument and would I do it justice?

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Important
  • May
  • Moral

• The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Soul

• Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Character
  • Success

• It's so cliche to say florals for spring. I really like a vintage-like dress that's floral. You can belt it; I like belts. I like wearing pretty dresses that are really comfortable, that you can spend the day in but also feel girly.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Pretty
  • Spring
  • Girly

• When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

  

  Will Smith
  • Life

• A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Men
  • Drinking

• Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • School
  • Devil

• How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.

  

  Margaret Heffernan
  • People
  • Truth

• I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.

  

  Peter Marino
  • Garden

• New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.

  

  Mary C. Jones
  • Improvement