Nancy Mairs Quotes

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

Nancy Mairs

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• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Emotions
  • Come
  • Go

• Pilates is great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Pilates

• I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fashion
  • Never
  • Magazine

• I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament-men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns - But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • King

• The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. His need for fresh air and open space is stronger than any hatred.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Character
  • Space
  • Air

• Someday I'll be livin' in a big old cityAnd all you're ever gonna be is mean.Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit meAnd all you're ever gonna be is mean.Why you gotta be so mean?

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Why

• Princes appear to me to be Fools Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life.

  

  Prince
  • Life

• 'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Important
  • Girl

• I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.

  

  Amber Benson

• 'But of course, you don’t believe in the existence of sin, do you?''I believe in the existence of reckless stupidity,' Rashmika replied.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Believe

• At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.

  

  Keith Coogan
  • Work
  • Small
  • Mom

• It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• In our country, singers are known as the voice of actors.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Country

• TV is really hard to break into. This may be the worst piece of advice, but make an independent film. TV oftentimes takes people who are established. The great benefit of not breaking in yet is purity of voice.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • God
  • Poetry

• The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • God

• The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Writing

• Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • Heaven
  • Stories
  • Thrones

• His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Support

• Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

  

  Nancy Mairs
  • God
  • Listening
  • Speaks