Jennie Finch Quotes

It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

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• I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Work
  • Man

• If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Child

• Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Never
  • Boy

• Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Something
  • Soothing
  • Hum

• There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Laws

• I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

  

  Olivia Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Believe
  • Literature
  • Human

• I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don't need any impetus to do it. I just sing.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Singing
  • Walking
  • Down

• I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Know

• My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Early
  • Museums
  • Costume

• The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.

  

  Claude Debussy

• It is no longer economy aiming at individual profit, but economy concerned with collective interest.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

  

  Donna Leon

• All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Family
  • Tree

• What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Path
  • Walking

• As much as you can eat healthy, it's also important to remember to drink healthy too. Tea is very healing.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Tea

• I've always felt the man is king of the house and should be amused and treated well.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • House
  • King

• I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Good
  • Pretty

• ... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Idea
  • Readers
  • Notebook

• IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • World
  • Technology
  • Empowering

• My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering.

  

  Mary Karr
  • People
  • Heart
  • Art

• Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Joy
  • Cold

• It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Empowering