Merle Shain Quotes

The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.

Merle Shain

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• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Positive
  • Possible
  • Negative

• As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Child

• Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • May
  • Create
  • Treat

• When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Success

• Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Leadership
  • Ever
  • Replace

• I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Happy
  • Rich
  • Concentration

• I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • Interested
  • Cry

• I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Tone

• We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • Goals
  • Cooperation

• We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

  

  Young Thug
  • Money
  • Power
  • Game

• And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Great
  • She
  • Beautiful

• And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Green

• From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Done
  • American
  • America

• I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Attention
  • More
  • Skin

• I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Career

• If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
  • Day
  • Watching

• I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Lose

• The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

  

  Betsy Lerner
  • Isolation
  • Communicating
  • Labors

• 'Mean Girls' is literally one of my favorite movies. It's just such a classic. Everybody has seen it, and me and my friends quote it all the time.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Movies

• Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

  

  Maxwell Maltz
  • Accomplishment

• The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.

  

  Merle Shain
  • Strong
  • Married
  • Romance