Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

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• I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Lost

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

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Regret

• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Start

• 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

• If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Age
  • Brain
  • Road

• I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Remember
  • Interesting
  • Mom

• 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've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Future
  • Always
  • Care

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  

  J Allard
  • Great
  • Real
  • May

• To go back means defeat.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Back
  • Go
  • Defeat

• I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• 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
  • Politics

• Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • War
  • Military

• The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Small
  • Support

• You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.

  

  Edward Albee

• My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.

  

  Mark Messier
  • People
  • Work

• In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.' Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Hunting

• No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Work
  • Education
  • Die

• I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Rock
  • Singing

• Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Door
  • Holiday

• No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • High
  • Free
  • Purpose

• Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

  

  Sara Willis
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