Joanna Trollope Quotes

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Why
  • She

• When I write a movie, I write it for me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Different
  • Perfect

• I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Girl
  • Perfect
  • Hard

• Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Night

• The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Light
  • Perfect
  • Desert

• I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Perfect

• I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids – he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Perfect

• I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Fight
  • Take
  • Him

• The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • May
  • Perfect

• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • May
  • Perfect

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Design

• Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• I love Clinique. Their moisturizer is amazing. My skin tends to be really oily, but then at times I'm dry, and that's the perfect amount of moisturizer.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Love
  • Perfect
  • Amazing

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Refuge

• Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Perfect
  • Silence

• God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

  

  Joseph Butler
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Passion

• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Practice

• I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Daily
  • Everyday

• There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • People
  • Gay
  • Lesbian

• I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

  

  Joanna Trollope
  • Perfect