Sue Grafton Quotes

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

Sue Grafton

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• The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Remember
  • Man
  • Friend

• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Wanted

• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Way
  • Concrete
  • Capability

• Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Want
  • Growing

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• The truth is I am not a very hands-on political wife; I don't get involved in day-to-day Downing Street life. They don't need me interfering, but in the evening, we will talk about each other's day. I try to stay out of the Westminster village. There are times when I will be surprised and curious about what's been announced.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Political

• You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • World
  • Different
  • You

• It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World

• I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity, to this announcement. I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington, but I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change. People who love their country can change it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Desire

• Nowhere else have I grown more in my faith than in the midst of my family.

  

  Deborah Raney
  • Family
  • Faith

• I'm playing first base and pitching and hitting. I feel like I'm almost better than I've ever been. It's like, 'You're going to walk away like this?'

  

  Jennie Finch

• I was obsessed with 'The Velvet Rope' for a year straight, letting Janet Jackson's confessional lyrics lull me to sleep and comfort me when I felt lost. I felt that the album was the vehicle onto which Janet finally expressed her full self.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Lost
  • Sleep
  • Lyrics

• Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • People
  • Learning
  • Tennis

• There are days that I love just devoting to going to the park and playing with my son, but then sometimes you have to leave out other things, or if work is a full day of work, perhaps I miss the play time with my son, and I guess the only struggle is trying to not shortchange any of the things that you want to do.

  

  Jane Krakowski
  • Time
  • Work
  • Trying

• I can't take just one book with me anywhere.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Book

• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Always
  • Another
  • Target

• Strong automotive and enterprise sales and the positive impact of our expanded license agreement with Microsoft more than offset the loss of revenue from the former devices and services business.

  

  Rajeev Suri
  • Business
  • Positive
  • Enterprise

• I'm not philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age... I accept the fact that I may have to raise my retirement age for that.

  

  Bill Flores
  • May
  • Age
  • Retirement

• Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Age

• Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Age
  • Feelings
  • Mask