Nancy Spain Quotes

I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• Don't trust anyone over 30.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Trust
  • Over
  • Anyone

• My favorite movie is 'Iron Man.' I tell people that I think it's just as good as 'Dark Knight,' if not better, and people tell me I'm crazy. I really like 'Iron Man.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • People
  • Good
  • Movie

• Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • People
  • High
  • Die

• As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Long
  • America
  • High

• My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Morning
  • Road
  • Son

• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Destiny

• America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • America
  • Interesting

• Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Substitute

• I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Being
  • Writer
  • Before

• If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Change
  • Health
  • Moral

• We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.

  

  Iman
  • World
  • Want
  • Girl

• When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Small
  • Wine

• But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Nature

• If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

  

  Peabo Bryson
  • Life
  • Music

• Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Brain

• If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

  

  Edward Burnett Tylor
  • Writing
  • Wife

• Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

  

  Max Planck
  • Great
  • Science
  • Question

• Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

  

  R. D. Laing

• When you cut your hair, everybody thinks you lost weight.

  

  Prince Fielder
  • Lost
  • Hair

• When I was modeling in Japan, I could blend in a little because of my hair, but my roommates with blonde hair got harassed. People would touch their hair and grope them in the subway. Actually, a lot of groping happens in the subway in Japan, but that's probably true of subways everywhere.

  

  Emmanuelle Vaugier
  • People
  • True
  • Hair

• You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Control
  • Die
  • Passion

• I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

  

  Nancy Spain
  • Hair
  • Head
  • Hat