Shirley Henderson Quotes

You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

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• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Forty
  • Sandwich
  • Ham

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Respect

• I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Know
  • Me
  • Dad

• The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up

• 'I've got a sort of idea,' said Pooh at last, 'but I don't suppose it's a very good one.' 'I don't suppose it is either,' said Eeyore.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good

• In playing Beethoven the violinist should be a medium. There is little that is personal or that can be reduced to ingratiating sounds, pleasing slides and so on. Everything is dictated by the significance, the weight, structure and direction of the notes and passages themselves.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin

• I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

  

  Louie Anderson
  • Art
  • Comedy

• The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Guy

• We have a big fan base in Australia, but none of us have been before.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham

• That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Success

• Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

  

  Emilio Azcarraga Jean
  • Business
  • Soccer

• My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.'

  

  Kem Nunn
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

  

  Joe Posnanski
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Sports

• I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

  

  David Duval
  • Celebrity

• I was 14 when I arrived at Real Sociedad. No team wanted me in France. I trialled for around eight clubs, and then Real came.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Real
  • Team

• I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• I'm still trying to be No. 1 in the world, like everyone else is out there.

  

  Jason Day
  • World
  • Trying

• Even the toughest people have a backstory, and villains don't feel like they're the bad guys.

  

  Lynn Whitfield
  • People
  • Bad

• God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Help
  • Team

• In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.

  

  Marie Rutkoski
  • Children
  • Literature

• There were few people, perhaps, more passionately fond of travelling, and seeing fresh places, and new scenes, than myself; but now, since, by the grace of God, I have seen beauty in the Lord Jesus, I have lost my taste for these things.

  

  George Muller
  • People
  • God
  • Lost

• You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

  

  Shirley Henderson