Susan Wiggs Quotes

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

Susan Wiggs

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiskey in there, too. After the show, I hang out at merch meeting people and signing things. After that, I usually try to see friends in whatever city we're in, or if I'm super beat, listen to a podcast and pass out.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Morning
  • Three
  • Ship

• I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Think
  • Fear

• I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Permanent
  • Invented

• If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Strong
  • Know
  • Right

• ...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
  • Success
  • Wish

• Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Violence
  • Dumb

• 8) History never repeats itself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • History

• This is George Bush’s accountability moment.

  

  Cindy Sheehan
  • Accountability

• That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Men

• We can freely acknowledge the tremendous struggle ahead of us, and yet choose to remain decidedly optimistic, and to work from a fundamental belief in the possibilities of the future. … Every time we explain how a better future might be built, we redraw the boundaries of the possible.

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Future

• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
  • She
  • Tiger

• Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Work
  • God
  • Character

• I always wanted to be a part of a New York-based label, so I've worked really hard to try and network with people that I felt would put me in the right place.

  

  Bridget Kelly
  • People

• Insults fade after years of use, becoming blunt like battle-weary blades. Insults rely on probing the open wounds of shame and guilt. She had neither.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Guilt
  • Wounds
  • Insults

• Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

  

  Susan Wiggs
  • Ignorance
  • Insults
  • Sting