Naomi Grossman Quotes

I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.

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• I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Family
  • She
  • Age

• Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Important
  • Done
  • Bad

• People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • History
  • Too Much
  • Geography

• There are no second acts in American lives.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • American
  • Lives
  • Second

• The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Land
  • Village
  • Ruthless

• I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Night

• I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Think
  • Better
  • Repetition

• Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hand

• The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Together
  • Design
  • Thought

• I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences. I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Together

• Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Me
  • Wall

• With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Know
  • Red
  • Lose

• It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Nature
  • Never
  • Distance

• When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

  

  Hank Haney
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Problem

• Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • People
  • Home
  • Cheese

• Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Question
  • Building
  • Material

• I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a writer is true to his vocation, to his or her vocation, the very process of creativity enlarges these human horizons. It provides insights, even when you're not writing, when your writing's not dealing with a concrete political situation.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Giving

• I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Way
  • Fashion
  • Wear

• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• So little of what could happen does happen.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Happen
  • Little

• I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Magic
  • Little
  • I Am Not

• I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.

  

  Naomi Grossman
  • Little
  • Audition
  • Tall