Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Popular
  • President
  • While

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Like
  • Being
  • Himself

• I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Forget
  • Everyone
  • Project

• I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Political
  • Diplomat

• As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Remember

• Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Know
  • Company

• Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Help
  • You
  • Young

• All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • May
  • End

• Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• I clung to my vegan friends for more support than anyone because they helped guide me and made the transition much easier. My family was a bit skeptical, as they felt like I wasn't getting enough protein in my vegan diet.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Support

• What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.

  

  Jacques Monod
  • Universe
  • Attitude

• I hope that people who don't believe depression is a real thing will stop calling people crazy, because that's dismissive and not a medical diagnosis.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.

  

  Joan Didion
  • World
  • Book
  • Hate

• I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

  

  James Rollins
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• The farmer’s daughter hath soft brown hair (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)And I met with a ballad, I can’t say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

  

  Charles Stuart Calverley
  • Hair
  • Daughter
  • Farmer

• Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Fascination
  • Childish
  • Sequence

• When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Week