Eoin Colfer Quotes

I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.

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• You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • You
  • Look
  • Will

• I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Improve
  • Manners
  • Sugar

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Like
  • Impossible
  • Selling

• We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Problem
  • Suffering
  • Same

• It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Law
  • Religion
  • Slavery

• The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Work
  • Job
  • Challenge

• I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Band
  • Study

• It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Over
  • Disappointments

• The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • Day
  • Road

• There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Doing

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  

  O. Henry
  • Live
  • Country
  • Citizenship

• People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • Community
  • Courage

• When a president speaks, it's to multiple audiences.

  

  Dana Perino
  • President
  • Audiences
  • Speaks

• In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Space

• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  

  John Donne

• If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot of ideas, let's put it that way - I have too many ideas. And my problem is, I stockpile ideas and I get lazy and I don't finish them, and next thing I know, I'm looking around and I've got a hundred song ideas, but are any of them any good? I don't know.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Problem

• I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

  

  James Denton
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Celebrity
  • Athlete
  • Gymnastics

• I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.

  

  Eoin Colfer
  • House