Melissa Gilbert Quotes

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

Melissa Gilbert

• Mother
• Daughter
• Mystery
• Frustration
• Rewards

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• If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Excellence
  • Without

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Driving
  • More
  • Go

• Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Makeup
  • Skin
  • Too Much

• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Too Much

• I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Old
  • Now
  • Three

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Bond

• When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Basketball

• I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Time
  • Love
  • Job

• On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Body
  • Workout
  • Friday

• I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Copy
  • Secretary
  • Dictate

• I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Puzzle

• Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Men
  • Money
  • Desire

• The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Existence
  • Mystery

• At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Night

• You can do ANYTHING you want to do-This is your World.

  

  Bob Ross
  • World

• We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Spirit

• Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

  

  Melissa Gilbert
  • Mother
  • Daughter
  • Mystery