Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Shonda Rhimes

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• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Star

• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Study
  • Too Much
  • Cricket

• I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Better

• Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Work
  • God
  • Thinking

• Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • People
  • Me
  • Attention

• I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Color

• I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Secret
  • Parenting
  • Neglect

• I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here

  

  Macy Gray
  • World
  • Goodbye

• A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Good
  • War

• Donald Trump has shown us his dark heart, has shown us his racism.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Trump

• I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Life
  • Family
  • She

• I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Friendship
  • Adversity

• I thought Clint Eastwood was cool in all the western movies, but I'm not gonna drive somewhere he's at and stand in line to see him. I told Missy, my wife, 'The only person I'd stand in line for is God Almighty. You made the universe? All right, I'll get in line!'

  

  Jase Robertson
  • God
  • Wife
  • Universe

• Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Style

• I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.

  

  Chad Lindberg
  • Alien

• When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

  

  William Osler
  • Men
  • Joy
  • Grief

• In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called 'Johnny.' I made a poster for it and sent it around the world to corporate art departments.

  

  John Van Hamersveld
  • World
  • School
  • Art

• We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Political
  • Ambition
  • Waste

• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Drawing
  • Lines
  • Waste