Mary Gordon Quotes

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Mary Gordon

• People
• Sad
• Ironic

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• The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Today
  • House
  • Night

• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Man
  • Chance

• The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Clothes

• I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Model

• I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Creating

• Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • World
  • Reading

• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Live
  • Child
  • Loved

• You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Appreciate
  • Evolution

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Try

• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Record
  • Very
  • Catchy

• I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Technology

• I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Picture

• I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Reason
  • Feel
  • Connected

• The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Real
  • Why

• It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.

  

  Denene Millner
  • Song
  • Dark
  • Sweet

• Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me, is the love of the people around me, and did I take a chance? Did I seize an opportunity to do something for people with the talents that I was lucky enough to be given? Did I make a difference in the lives of people who needed me?

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Opportunity

• I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

  

  Kristen Schaal
  • Control
  • Friend
  • Collaboration

• I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • People
  • Sad
  • Ironic