Molly Ivins Quotes

My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.

Molly Ivins

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• The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Praise

• The job as a coach is difficult.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Coach

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Enough

• We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Done
  • See
  • Apple

• Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Animal

• Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

  

  Edmund White
  • Great
  • House
  • Flower

• Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Attention
  • Sound
  • Influence

• I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Long
  • Father

• My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Actor

• Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • True
  • Opinions
  • Worth

• I'm an inventor.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Inventor

• It's not a bad time to be me.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Great
  • Want
  • You

• It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

  

  Jimmy Rushing

• We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • Great

• Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled.

  

  Jim Lee

• The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.

  

  Doug Liman
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Joy
  • Memory
  • Youth

• It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.

  

  Matthew Perry

• Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Wall

• I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

  

  William Mapother
  • Actors
  • Emotion
  • Certain

• My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Cutting
  • Emotion
  • Awful