Judith Martin (Miss Manners) Quotes

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin

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• The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Defeat
  • Return
  • Terrorists

• I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Hard

• If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Perfect
  • Revolution
  • Look

• Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Age
  • Walking
  • Adult

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Done
  • Day
  • Better

• Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• 'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Important
  • Way
  • Actor

• Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Writing
  • Living
  • Wrestling

• I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Gossip

• I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Potential
  • saw

• Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Cancer
  • Smoking

• There is nothing important except people. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • May
  • Law

• I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

  

  Boris Kodjoe
  • People
  • Sunset

• This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Why
  • May
  • inspirational

• The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Society
  • Relationship
  • Religious

• What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • She
  • Teacher

• I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Willing
  • Choke
  • Despatch

• We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

  

  Judith Martin
  • Society
  • Born
  • Participate