Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Where
  • Still
  • Charge

• Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

  

  Iris Chang
  • See
  • Media
  • Economic

• I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Period

• As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Want
  • Artist

• But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Drinking

• Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Significant changes in both the level of the overall spending and in the structure of its financing will be necessary, compared with what was on the table in June, if there is to be a deal in December.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Changes
  • Deal
  • December

• Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human

• I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Free

• Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

  

  Arthur Powell Davies
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Quality

• I always play women I would date.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Women
  • Play
  • Dating

• We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • Change
  • Boring

• I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • People
  • Work
  • Respect

• You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking

• People assume that because I'm a celebrity and have this platform that I always know what I'm talking about. I guess I don't always know what I'm talking about because I'm a kid who's trying to figure it out amid all the chaos of the world at large, and also the chaos of having this voice and responsibility. At the same time, this voice and responsibility has been the biggest blessing because I'm able to create change just by posting something on Instagram. That's really amazing. I can't believe that I get to have that megaphone and I get to decide how to use it.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • High
  • Everyday

• And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Trouble
  • Self
  • Whole

• Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Lord
  • Pray
  • Appointment

• I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built for me, I mean, and my second day out to sea I realized that (a) I'm not a sailor, and (b) I have no knowledge of basic navigation.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • World
  • Mean
  • Boat

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Believe
  • Future

• A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high full of the single greatest commodity known to man - promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a greater hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, in her soul, the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it's going to be okay.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Girl
  • Promise
  • Aura

• Whenever Allah’s Messenger saw the rain, he used to say, O Allah! Let it be a strong fruitful rain.

  

  Aisha
  • Strong
  • Rain
  • Allah

• Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Mean
  • Succeed
  • Failing