Amy Van Dyken Quotes

I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.

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• My real last name is Galifianakisburg.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Real
  • Name
  • Last

• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Language
  • Bible
  • Without

• I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

  

  Earle Combs
  • Animal
  • Right
  • Dumb

• For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Shoe

• I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Work
  • Career
  • Never

• I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Never

• I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Mom
  • Feel
  • Superhero

• I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Couple
  • Hearts
  • Collection

• So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Country
  • Father
  • Search

• It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Dead

• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Anything
  • Cause
  • Symptom

• I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Why

• From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Success
  • Man

• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Friends
  • Chance
  • Friendship

• The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Importance
  • Far
  • Middle East

• After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Growth
  • Loss
  • Productivity

• I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Company
  • Hollywood
  • Worked

• I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Better
  • Lights

• Gibberish rap is - I freestyle all the time, just hangin' out with friends. And sometimes when I'm freestyling, I'll lose my flow, you know, but I'll still wanna - I don't wanna just stop rapping because I lose my flow. So I'll just put in nonsense words till I can bring in regular words again.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Words

• Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Wisdom

• The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Eyes
  • Lies
  • Dog

• You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'

  

  Bono U2
  • Death
  • Behavior
  • Politeness

• I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.

  

  Amy Van Dyken
  • Body
  • Far
  • Pushing