Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)
Quotes to Explore
-
That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
-
Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
-
I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
-
Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
-
My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.
-
Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
-
Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein – you know, popcorn movie.
-
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
-
A spectacular anomaly came up with the hydrides of the nonmetals-an ugly bunch, about as inimical to life as one could get. Arsenic and antimony hydrides were very poisonous and smelly; silicon and phosphorous hydrides were spontaneously inflammable. I had made in my lab the hydrides of sulfur (H
-
Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.
-
Then rose up the horror which would make civilized man shun justice like a plague if he had not the needy to serve him as hangmen for wages.
-
(The Community Charge is) the flagship of the Thatcher fleet.
-
I know it sounds really lame and hater-ish, but I think 2009 was maybe the worst year for music ever.
-
One of the surprises to me was the willingness of many people in the conservative media to roll over, to abandon long-held conservative principles, and to embrace Donald Trump.
-
I'm really not a celebrity; I'm just a teacher.
-
I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.
-
I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.
-
Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.
-
About 10 minutes [into the dinner] my sister texted me and said, "Maria, I just wanted to let you know that you're on TV live. You're front and center." I thought, 'Oh God, I'm right behind Donald Trump and in the camera shot. After that I stopped moving. I just sat there. It was funny. I was delighted that people noticed my white gloves. It was a white tie dinner, for the dais you had to be in white tie. If I can't channel my best Sophia Loren glamour for a white tie affair, when can I? I thought it was an excellent opportunity to wear the white gloves.
-
In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
-
If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.
-
Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
-
This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)
