Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
-
I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
-
I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
-
In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
-
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
-
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
-
Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
-
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
-
The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
-
I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
-
As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
-
Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
-
I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
-
Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
-
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
-
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
-
If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
-
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
-
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.
-
People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.
-
There are certain people I'd absolutely love to work with. I was a huge fan of 'Two and a Half Men.' The comedic timing was so perfect on that show. So maybe that show or maybe 'Modern Family.' Both of those shows have great casts.
-
People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!
-
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
