Dorothy Dunnett Quotes

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

Dorothy Dunnett

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• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Society
  • Fashion
  • Reflection

• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Control
  • Day
  • Sleep

• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Ready

• When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Best

• I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Men
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Character
  • Action
  • Drama

• Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Fun
  • Enjoy
  • Princess

• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Pain

• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Working

• I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Land
  • Boxer

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Think
  • Stop

• Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Israel
  • Bank
  • West

• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Happy
  • Gun
  • Riding

• I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Trouble

• The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • People
  • Punishment
  • Objection

• I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Free
  • Sometimes

• Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Good
  • God
  • She

• I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

  

  Joe Namath

• Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers.

  

  Travis Tatum Mills
  • Opinion
  • Answers
  • Weakness

• Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Time
  • Genius
  • Lack