Dorothy Allison Quotes

I have a terrible memory.

Dorothy Allison

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
  • Important
  • Rules

• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • World
  • May

• If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Amazing

• If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Person

• I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Money
  • Care
  • Fame

• You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Feel Good

• As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I discover that hardly a week passes that some one does not start a new cult, or revive an old one; if I had a hundred life-times I could not know all the creeds and ceremonies, the services and rituals, the litanies and liturgies, the hymns, anthems and offertories of Bootstrap-lifting.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Life
  • Lifting

• If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Society
  • Stop

• You have frightened and daunted me. I will stop stealing at once.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Stop

• Die romantische Poesie ist eine progressive Universalpoesie.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• Occasionally I talk with people who see doctors as people who do nothing but give of themselves and never receive from anyone else – especially not from their patients. That is totally false. The longer I remain in my profession, the more I realize how much I receive from those who come to me for help.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Help

• On visiting India this time, because of my previous visit, I did have a certain amount of knowledge about the country, but I also felt that there was much greater interest in Japan and deeper interaction between the two countries now than the last time I was there.

  

  Akihito
  • Time
  • Country
  • Knowledge

• I set a course just east of LyraAnd northwest of PegasusFlew into the light of DenebSailed across the Milky WayOn my ship, the 'Rocinante'Wheeling through the galaxiesHeaded for the heart of CygnusHeadlong into mystery - Cygnus X-1, Book One; The Voyage (1977)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Light

• I kid my friends who are golfers, and I say, 'If you ever hear me complain, hit me in the butt with a putter' because I have no reason to complain. Even on days when you don't like what you see in the paper, I have no reason to complain.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Friends

• When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Peace
  • Drawing

• Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • People
  • Business
  • Judge

• I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Time
  • Period
  • Gay

• Literally, my earliest memory, my earliest vivid memory, is the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Yeah, I was in fourth grade, and I was just so captivated. And I think you'll find a lot of space scientists of my generation will say the same thing. Apollo was a big event for them.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Space
  • Moon

• Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Guy

• Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Family
  • Me

• What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Parents
  • Kind

• My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Emotions
  • Remains
  • Ships

• I have a terrible memory.

  

  Dorothy Allison