Susan Wiggs Quotes
There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.Susan Wiggs
Quotes to Explore
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant -
I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
Taissa Farmiga -
What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
Kate Moss -
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
Ha-Joon Chang -
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
Nancy Pelosi -
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with perhaps the exception of Hillary Clinton.
Carly Fiorina -
In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
Sam Abell -
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
V. S. Naipaul -
I like to get real pretty.
Adam Lambert -
Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
Sam Altman
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I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
Parker Posey -
I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
Madhuri Dixit -
My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.
Patrisse Cullors -
There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.
James Caan -
It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.
Lena Olin
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I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.
Charlotte Rampling -
I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.
Bernard Goldberg -
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
Lao Tzu -
Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
Nathan Outteridge -
I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.
Seth MacFarlane -
There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.
Susan Wiggs