Gail Collins Quotes
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
Gail Collins
Quotes to Explore
I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
Walt Handelsman
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
Imre Kertesz
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
Carlisle Floyd
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
Kate Morton
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
Walter Kohn
Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
Candace Parker
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides
My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
Gary Allan
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
Larry Hagman
In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
J. Cole
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
Out in the field, I feel like I'm flexible enough to where I'm comfortable at different positions, wherever they want to put me.
Ben Zobrist
I was part of a group called Casanova Fly, doing bouncer work, attending college and working in a pizza shop when I first met producer Sylvia Robinson who came into the pizza shop where I was flipping the dough. I was rapping in the park in Englewood, and she heard about what I was doing.
Big Bank Hank
The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.
Brian Tracy
It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.
David Simon
During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.
Ella Baker
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
Gail Collins
