Lana Turner Quotes

Trash is something you get rid of-or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.

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• Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Heart
  • Conservatism
  • Ecology

• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• I've never met anyone that is their image.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Never
  • Image
  • Met

• There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Myself
  • Story
  • Romantic

• Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that instant recognition and at such an early stage, where people totally didn't know my name, but they knew my face immediately.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • People
  • She
  • Smart

• One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Different
  • She
  • Career

• The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Language
  • Ethics
  • Accept

• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Exercise

• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Knows
  • Countries
  • Some

• Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Elegance
  • Forgetting

• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Successful
  • Face
  • Adversity

• Whenever some kind of mass shooting or any other kind of violent activity takes place, we kind of hold our breath until we are sure that no Muslim was involved, because we know that these incidents will be treated differently if a Muslim is involved versus if somebody of another background is involved.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Place

• I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Struggle
  • E-mail

• The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Morality
  • Foundation
  • Most

• A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • People
  • Black
  • Me

• If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Up
  • See
  • Something

• I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Voice

• A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

  

  Caryl Chessman

• I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Team

• I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • Small
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky. But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Solution
  • Nuclear
  • Gas

• Trash is something you get rid of-or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.

  

  Lana Turner