Jacqueline Carey Quotes

I have always loved fantasy; I think probably stepping through the wardrobe with Lucy in C.S. Lewis's 'Narnia Chronicles' was my first exposure when I was really little.

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• Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Public

• I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Friends
  • Dog
  • Philadelphia

• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • War
  • Always
  • Human

• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • True
  • Friend

• There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Best
  • Period

• Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Attractive
  • Toxic

• I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Truth
  • Problem

• According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • New
  • Virtue
  • Ethics

• I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Makeup

• Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parents

• My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Comedy
  • Example
  • Follow

• I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Nice

• Sino-Japanese relations will certainly brighten more in the future and the flowers of friendly Sino-Japanese relations will increase their beauty.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Future
  • Japanese

• My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

  

  Aristotle
  • Poetry
  • Purposes
  • Convincing

• I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Women
  • Tired

• When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Night
  • Reading
  • Spiritual

• When you talk about a character on a situation comedy, it's not just the actor. It's the writers, too.

  

  Franklin Cover
  • Character
  • Comedy

• She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

  

  Moliere
  • Laughing
  • Sleeve

• In civilized societies today … clitoris envy, or womb envy, takes subtle forms. Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

  

  Elizabeth Gould Davis
  • Fear
  • Woman
  • Rights

• When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Victory

• I like hot people being hot. How else do you explain my high school infatuation with Ricky Martin in all his shirtless glory?

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I have always loved fantasy; I think probably stepping through the wardrobe with Lucy in C.S. Lewis's 'Narnia Chronicles' was my first exposure when I was really little.

  

  Jacqueline Carey