Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

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• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Born

• I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • People
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Star
  • Theatre

• I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • Population
  • Stabilization

• I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Fun
  • Try
  • Have Fun

• The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Emotions

• I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Play
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Always
  • Another
  • Target

• I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Home
  • Father
  • Single

• You don't know where life takes you.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• I think, honestly, my largest concern, there are a lot of unbalanced people out there, and all of a sudden, I'm the CIA poster girl, and our home in Washington, the front door was about 20 feet from the street. I went to the agency at a certain point and asked for security on a residence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Home
  • Girl

• I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Action
  • Challenge
  • Athlete

• It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • You
  • Vote
  • Republican

• I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Failure
  • Process

• I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Believe
  • Painting
  • Acting

• First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • Life
  • Dying
  • Soldiers

• There is an excitement about having nightmares.

  

  Betsey Johnson

• Then come on up. DO everyone a favor and shut me up," he said. "Put down your money, pick up that ball, and let it fly, looker." "I'd rather not" People laughed. He flapped his arms and squawked like a chicken "Afraid you can't throw that far?" "I know I can" He lifted his hat in a small salute to my claim. Blond curls slipped out, then he plopped the hat back on and said, "I dare you.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Arms
  • Balls
  • Claims

• 13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Might
  • Academic
  • Weight Problems

• I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Variety
  • Skepticism
  • Testing

• Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Crazy