Jessica Lynch Quotes

The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.

Jessica Lynch

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• No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Alone
  • Dance
  • End

• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • Revolutions

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• Lunch is for wimps.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Lunch
  • Wimps

• I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fashion

• I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
  • Food
  • Model

• Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Crime
  • Movement

• Every casting director I've met is a woman.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Woman
  • Director
  • Casting

• Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Coach

• You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • You
  • Rap
  • Now

• But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Friends

• We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Work
  • May

• Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, 'no epoch was more naturally mad.'

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Time
  • Mad

• So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Stop
  • Excuses

• I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

  

  Paul Wellstone

• They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

  

  Mark Goddard

• If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• We can say that speaking French 'runs in families,' but I don't know anyone who would claim that speaking French is genetic.

  

  Daniel Levitin

• Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

  

  John Flavel

• Happy who in his verse can gently steerFrom grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

  

  John Dryden
  • Happy
  • Light

• I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

  

  John Irving
  • Society

• With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Grew

• The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.

  

  Jessica Lynch