Patty Griffin Quotes

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

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• Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Feel
  • Glamorous
  • Lingerie

• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Healthy
  • Eating
  • Meat

• I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.

  

  Dan Colen
  • World
  • Trying
  • High

• In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.

  

  Xavi
  • Space
  • Play
  • Looking

• Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Black
  • Community
  • Party

• I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • People
  • Why
  • Home

• You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Family
  • Single

• It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Social
  • Now

• It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Better
  • Working

• I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Art

• I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Enjoy Life

• Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space, it can contemplate the meaning of infinity, and it can contemplate itself contemplating the meaning of infinity.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Space
  • Hand

• 7) Any damn fool can predict the past.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Past
  • Fool

• I don't wear makeup when I'm home. I love taking a break from it.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Home
  • Makeup

• I feel comfortable in my skin, so it doesn't matter what I wear or how I look. Confidence is my best accessory.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Confidence

• Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Mind
  • Tea
  • Rude

• The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Platform

• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

  Yuna
  • Song
  • Always
  • Egypt

• Leaders of the various Iraqi elements will likely have their own militias, and there will be endless rounds of brinkmanship on the road to post-Islamic State boundaries, governing structures, and distribution of power and resources.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Power
  • Road
  • Islamic

• Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

  

  Patty Griffin