Gail Honeyman Quotes

I started doing a Ph.D., and then I thought, 'I don't really want to spend all this time on my own in the library.'

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• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Buddhist

• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Try
  • Boring

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • History
  • Mistake
  • United

• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Song

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Family
  • Stability
  • Promotion

• We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Hypocrisy

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Together

• One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Never
  • Look
  • Orange

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Good
  • Best
  • New York

• It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Funny
  • Kind
  • Dark

• I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • Family
  • Past
  • Respect

• The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Evil
  • Prisoner
  • Grace Of God

• Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Musically, what happened was this: I retired twice. I retired after The Black Crowes, and I retired after Brand New Immortals. Then, we started buying real estate, which really took up my time. I was busy. I was still teaching yoga, but I was mostly busy running business, and I was fine. I was happy.

  

  Johnny Colt The Black Crowes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

  

  Kenny Chesney
  • Soul
  • College
  • Focus

• I started doing a Ph.D., and then I thought, 'I don't really want to spend all this time on my own in the library.'

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • Time
  • Library