Michael Showalter Quotes

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.

Michael Showalter

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• If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Stock

• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Forest
  • Tongue

• Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• People say they like my fashion-haul videos because it's like you've been shopping with your friends, and you look back over what you have bought.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fashion

• The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Mother

• Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • You
  • More
  • Fit

• To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

  

  Ferdinand Foch

• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Reading
  • Doubt
  • Revolution

• This goes to demonstrate the fact that John Howard established this inquiry in order to bring about his own absolution, not to bring about any form of accountability.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Accountability

• In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Important
  • Character
  • Opinion

• The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Rock

• Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

  

  Ellen G. White

• I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Guy

• I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the opposite of whiteness.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • World

• For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • Men
  • Simple

• Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

  

  Ben Mezrich

• I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

  

  Anita Loos
  • People
  • Up
  • Religion

• We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Culture

• Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Teacher
  • Word
  • Clown

• I'm much more careful now about who I let into my life, but I don't think you could ever change what you're attracted to. You can make choices if you want to be with those people.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.

  

  Michael Showalter
  • Thinking
  • Confusing