Caitlin Moran Quotes

I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.

Caitlin Moran

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Come
  • Radical
  • Libertarians

• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • War
  • Cold

• The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Dad
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Contribution

• I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Thought
  • Writer
  • Tough

• I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Children
  • Father

• Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Years
  • Broken
  • Presidential

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

  

  Harold Prince
  • College
  • Question
  • Never

• I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Time
  • Important
  • Ahead

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• What meal is not expensive? That for which no animal is put to death. … one participating of feeling, of seeing, of hearing, of imagination, and of intellection; which each animal hath received from Nature for the acquiring of what is agreeable to it, and the avoiding what is disagreeable.

  

  Plutarch
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Feeling

• I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Healthy

• I was onstage singing with Luke Bryan, and he started singing a song that we hadn't rehearsed. Both Luke and myself just winged it.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Song
  • Singing

• Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Truth

• I worked with Steven Spielberg on 'AI,' and his level of preparation was extraordinary. He told me there was a time at the beginning when he was a bit more spontaneous and went over budget, and it absolutely wrecked his head. When you look at the power and assuredness of his movies, it makes sense that he works out so much in advance.

  

  Brendan Gleeson
  • Time
  • Power
  • Beginning

• I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Women
  • Fear