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

• 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

• 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
  • Me
  • Growing

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

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Trouble

• That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Race
  • U.S.
  • Striving

• All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Crime
  • Almost
  • Golden

• White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Racial
  • Credibility

• Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Experience

• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Single

• I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

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

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Time
  • Genius
  • Lack