Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Body

• If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Win

• Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Love
  • Comfort
  • Protect

• Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Nature
  • Facts
  • Human Nature

• Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Think
  • Expression

• The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life

• One thing as a leader - you don't say something to say something. When you actually see something and need to talk to a guy, that's when you say it. It will come naturally.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Guy

• I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Basketball

• I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Great

• Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Life

• You rarely see any blowout games.

  

  Jake Arrieta

• When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Thinking

• When talented, qualified women take on greater responsibility, the simple fact of being talented and qualified is hardly enough to shield them from the gender-specific animosity that will come their way.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Women
  • Simple
  • Responsibility

• We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • People
  • Up
  • Attention

• Exchanging bitcoin on behalf of ransomware victims should not be construed as criminal activity by the exchanger, not as a matter of law nor as sound policy. Such an interpretation would set a precedent that would surely cause real harm to the public, to the blockchain ecosystem, and to the financial services industry as a whole.

  

  Perianne Boring
  • Real
  • Law
  • Financial

• Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

  

  Bryan Stevenson
  • Education
  • Support

• That's what has always been good about track. The goal is very clearly defined: Try to win. Get the gold medal. And I'm able to put my energy toward that.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Gold

• Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.

  

  Bob McDonnell
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • World
  • Fall

• Carolyn Maloney knows how to get something done, and as I said, it doesn't matter if she's in the majority or the minority. It doesn't matter if she's chair of a committee or not, she can figure out how to get a piece of legislation passed, and that's what is - is a unique quality.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Done
  • She
  • Quality

• If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Want
  • Dollars
  • Print

• I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay