Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes

Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

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• The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Die
  • Day
  • Cool

• I never wrote my books especially for children.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Children
  • Never
  • Books

• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Want
  • Me
  • Film

• I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Family
  • Think
  • Period

• As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Long
  • Training
  • Army

• Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Idea
  • Stand

• What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Support
  • Moving
  • Process

• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Done
  • History
  • Science

• If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Afraid

• Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Things

• If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Promise

• I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Time
  • Respect

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

  

  Walter Martin
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Mind

• They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.

  

  Crystal Chappell
  • People

• There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.

  

  Davinia Taylor
  • People
  • Sobriety

• I realized that there's a big world, and really, the only way you can make a critical impact on something greater than your own little world is through technology.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • World
  • Way
  • Technology

• There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Power
  • Church
  • Prayer

• I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • English

• Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Running
  • Path
  • Matter