John Grogan Quotes

I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'

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• My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Book
  • History

• We never see ourselves as others see us.

  

  Oliver Hardy
  • Never
  • See
  • Others

• I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Know
  • Mirror

• I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

  

  Usher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rose

• Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • World
  • Snack
  • Peanut Butter

• I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Silent
  • Hear

• When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Style

• Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • America
  • Changing

• I tend to read non-fiction.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Read
  • Tend
  • Nonfiction

• I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Control
  • Fate

• I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Violence

• I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Change
  • Me

• In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Party

• I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Good
  • Friends
  • College

• The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Reality

• Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Humor
  • Sense
  • Laugh

• The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Heart
  • Art

• Chip is like that kid, like the five-year-old kid that's trying to make his mom breakfast, and there's milk everywhere.

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Breakfast

• When I started watching matches, it was those of Marseille. After that, it was Lyon. I went to see them all the time in the league or the Champions League with my dad.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Time
  • Dad

• I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Up
  • Something
  • Concern

• The hardest part of 'Game of Thrones' is there is so much incredible talent bouncing off the walls that you'll actually miss some of them, and not getting it is very intimidating.

  

  Alex Graves
  • Game

• The thing to remember is that children are temporary. As soon as they develop a sense of humor and get to be good company, maybe even remember to take the trash out and close the refrigerator door, they pack up their electronic equipment and their clothes, and some of your clothes, and leave in a U-Haul, to return only at Thanksgiving.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Develop

• I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'

  

  John Grogan