Alice-Leone Moats Quotes

It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids' and ushers' dinner is usually on that night, for a groom realizes that he and his attendants need some time in which to recover sufficiently to be able to distinguish the altar from the organ and walk up the aisle with no mishaps.

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• I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Kids
  • Independent
  • Popular

• When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Feeling
  • Body
  • Kindness

• I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

  

  Larry David
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Party

• Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • War
  • Faith

• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Dance
  • Floor

• What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Life
  • City
  • Quality

• I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Powerful

• If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Work
  • War
  • Peace

• When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, ‘Well, it’s men hurting other men.’ When we hear that blacks are the greater victims, we consider it racist to say, ‘Well, it’s blacks hurting blacks.’ The victim is a victim no matter who the perpetrator was.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men

• So you went looking for a myth and found a man.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• Some men like me talkin' happy Some calls it snappy Some call me honey Others think I got money Some tell me baby you're built for speed Now if you put that all together Makes me everything a good man needs.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Money

• Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

  

  Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Time
  • History

• I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki

• In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • People
  • America
  • Age

• It never feels like work. I get to go to the studio and be with my friends every day and write new things and experiment with new sounds. We just have a blast.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • Work
  • Friends

• I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I do believe that if models look like children, then they shouldn't be sexualised.

  

  Elizabeth Jagger
  • Believe
  • Children

• It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

  

  Jim Sullivan
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I'm not a chintz person, never was. It's too cute.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • English
  • Cute

• 'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Political
  • Science
  • Action

• Nobody knows what dark matter is. It is another deep mystery waiting to be explored. We know only that it is there, and that it weighs more than the stuff that we can see.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Waiting

• I love cleansing my face in the mornings and at night using Bliss Foaming Facial Wash. It makes my skin feel soft, and the refreshing smell always wakes me up.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Up
  • Night

• The whole system of society tells you what to do.

  

  Barry White
  • Society
  • You
  • Whole

• It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids' and ushers' dinner is usually on that night, for a groom realizes that he and his attendants need some time in which to recover sufficiently to be able to distinguish the altar from the organ and walk up the aisle with no mishaps.

  

  Alice-Leone Moats
  • Night
  • Wedding
  • Recover