Tony Abbott Quotes
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
-
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
-
Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
-
It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
-
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
-
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
-
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
-
In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
-
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
-
Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
-
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
-
If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.
-
I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
-
I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.
-
The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.
-
If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'
-
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
-
The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
-
Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.
-
Dandyism is a species of genius.
-
I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore.
-
The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.
-
I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.
-
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
