Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

Helen Gurley Brown

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• Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Weird

• In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Career

• Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Acting

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

  

  Beck
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Boring

• About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Know

• Yellow's more like, I'm not trying to be this sexy vixen or anything, obviously. I'm a very friendly person, and I literally do just want to be your friend. I think all of that is wrapped up in yellow. It seems to work. I like being in it.

  

  Cam
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Present

• Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Attention

• America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Trying
  • America
  • Best

• There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Start

• I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Trying

• I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Trying
  • Trust
  • Moral

• Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

  

  Brent Runyon
  • Work
  • Trying

• It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Trying
  • Crazy
  • Baby

• If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

  

  Lynn Abbey
  • Trying
  • Question

• When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Passion

• When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess –- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop –- let's get to work.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Character
  • Preparation

• I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Care
  • Costs
  • Lottery

• Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Trying
  • Knows
  • Glands