Molly Ivins Quotes

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day.

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Government

• I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dad

• I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Idea

• In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Football

• I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • You
  • Living
  • Achievement

• The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Powerful
  • Unique
  • Criticism

• Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Fashion

• Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Life
  • Science
  • Interesting

• Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Sometimes

• Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Think
  • Just

• I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Live
  • Think
  • Start

• Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Important
  • Long
  • Question

• Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Me
  • Angry
  • Pleasure

• As woman was the first to be tempted, so did God's message of grace come first to a woman, and each time woman's assent determined the destiny of humanity as a whole.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • God
  • Humanity

• I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Amazing
  • Mom
  • Teacher

• I've put on makeup just for fun since I was a really little girl. Now I keep a look book for inspiration - with hair, makeup, beauty tips and products to try.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Girl

• What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Trying
  • California
  • Innocent

• I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

  

  Bill Hader

• Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Dark
  • Heaven
  • Deep

• If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Water
  • Inspiration
  • IQ