Piper Laurie Quotes

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

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• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Focus
  • Style
  • Budget

• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • Women
  • Sad

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Weak
  • Once
  • Weary

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • War
  • Free
  • Government

• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Know
  • Person
  • Actions

• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Again
  • Cheese
  • Pasta

• In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Question
  • Dating
  • Take

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Age

• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Pain
  • Workplace

• I'm a huge Joe Nichols fan, and he put this song out an album called 'Real Things.' I was excited for Joe when I heard it, thinking 'that will easily be Joe Nichols' career song.' I was even more excited when they got out of that album and they never released it as a single, because then I was like, 'Now that's gonna be my career single.'

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Career

• We are having extreme difficulty with local gangs of 'Survivalists.' Fortunately, these infestations of egotists are mostly too paranoid to band together. They’re as much trouble to each other as to us, I suppose. Still, they are becoming a real problem.

  

  David Brin
  • Real
  • Together
  • Band

• I think my sense of humor is really dark and super twisted and stuff like that. It's like, "Is this a funny joke for real? Or am I just rich?" See? That was funny.

  

  Kanye West
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Funny

• I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

  

  Leslie Nielsen
  • Comedy

• And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

  

  Piper Laurie
  • Life
  • Real