Mona Simpson Quotes

I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.

Mona Simpson

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• Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Felt

• I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Always
  • Insecurity
  • Out

• God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • King
  • Legal

• It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • America
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Music
  • Theatre

• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• Estimates are that in 2012, more than 32 million books were available - the explosion, thanks to the ease of self-publishing; 2013 could see even more titles grace our virtual bookstores! That means we are going to be awash in covers and titles, plot descriptions and characters.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • See
  • Grace
  • Thanks

• At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • History
  • Game
  • Team

• Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Practice

• My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Nature
  • Painting

• I try to do a variety of physical activities. I spin, take classes at Barry's Boot Camp, go to the gym, use home DVD's of ChaLEAN Extreme workouts, which I think are brilliant, and I run around after my three girls. Also, let's be honest. The amount of laundry I do is an exercise in and of itself!

  

  Alicia Coppola
  • Home
  • Exercise
  • Gym

• Rod's not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Good

• I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Done
  • Home
  • Comedy

• I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Song
  • Singing

• The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.

  

  John Dingell
  • People
  • American
  • Party

• If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Discipline
  • Student

• Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

  

  James Dyson
  • People

• I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

  

  Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Women
  • Family
  • Home

• I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.

  

  Mona Simpson
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Memories