Judith Martin (Miss Manners) Quotes

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

Judith Martin

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• There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • School
  • Change
  • Acting

• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Up
  • Go
  • Advertising

• Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Why
  • You

• What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Myself
  • Best

• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Money
  • Capitalism
  • Throw

• It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Support
  • End
  • Complex

• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • American
  • Right
  • Privacy

• I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Republican
  • Democrat
  • Nor

• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • World
  • Good
  • Confidence

• We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • Nature
  • Man

• All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Gold
  • Nothing
  • Loser

• Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Earth
  • Positive
  • Pollution

• I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Think
  • Eyes
  • Constitution

• If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • House
  • You
  • Risk

• I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Party
  • Tired

• I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it to be my entire life forever. And then it was this very specific life, and I wanted to learn about other things. So I modeled to fill the time because dancing was very much a job, even when I was 14 years old.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.

  

  Dan Severson
  • People
  • You
  • Church

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

  

  Aimee Carter
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Wish

• Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

  

  Judith Martin
  • Pressure
  • Wishes
  • Line