Ethel Waters Quotes

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

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• I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Age
  • Like
  • Feel

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wisdom

• If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Spinning

• Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women

• Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• People see what they want to see.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People

• Unilateralism, as we have painfully seen in Iraq, is its own reward. Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to 'bring it on.'

  

  Al Gore
  • May
  • Political
  • Alone

• Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Great
  • Simple
  • Humble

• After 'Peepshow,' I really don't know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.

  

  Coco Austin
  • Forever

• Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or - we don't have those problems and we don't have the reinvention convention.

  

  David Axelrod
  • People
  • Party
  • Worry

• Banks and credit agencies learn continuously about the purchases we make. This is convenient and diminishes the risk of theft. It also means that banks can know more about our lifestyle than our close relatives.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Risk

• The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.

  

  Elliott Abrams

• My thing with fans is, it's always about being really good to them and taking the time to take every picture. If there are 300 people, you should take 300 pictures - you shouldn't take 250 because then fifty people will go home sad. Why would you do that?

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

  

  Edward Albert
  • Relationship
  • Simple
  • Understanding

• Noir was a brainchild of the United States. And most of the creators of classic noir - novelists and screenwriters, directors and cameramen - were men. Women were their mysterious, sometimes villainous, always seductive objects of desire.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Desire

• It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• When you put yourself out into the world and say, 'Hey, look at me,' you're going to get criticized.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • World

• Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Small
  • Lipstick

• There cannot be a new religion. Religion is a continuous living process within us which is our sustenance. It's like a ladder on which we climb, leaving one by one, step by step - but not leaving the ladder. All others are required.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Words
  • Language
  • Existence

• I get my inspiration for my songs and the lyrics from experiences in my life, but I'm also very inspired by the Beatles and Cyndi Lauper, as I really like their music.

  

  Kim Petras
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Songs

• Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Mysterious
  • Mediums
  • Guides