Nellie Fox Quotes

You don't have to be big to be a big leaguer. Look at Phil Rizzuto. He's really small and he's been one of the greatest that ever was.

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• I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Shoulders

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • You
  • Romantic
  • Lead

• I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Think
  • Style

• Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Time
  • Live
  • Listening

• I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Way
  • Internet

• I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.

  

  Edmund White
  • Attention
  • Die
  • Body

• It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Why
  • Fear
  • Health

• Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Free
  • Constitution
  • Opinions

• Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Power
  • Support
  • Powerful

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Age
  • Pessimistic

• When I eat biscuits, I also eat grits.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Eat
  • Also
  • Biscuits

• I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Great
  • School
  • High

• Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Easy
  • Determination

• I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're given just enough money to live on during the filming, but then they participate in the back-end. If the movie suddenly makes a gazillion dollars, we'll participate in that profit.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Live
  • Money
  • Done

• He said take out your maps, folks, here's where we're winning, here's where we're losing, here's what we have to do.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Maps

• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Justice
  • Events

• Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you'll be surprised at where you might get to.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Long
  • Baby
  • Looks

• I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Best

• I can’t die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I’ll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

  

  Carlo D'Este
  • Die
  • Lifetime
  • To Do

• You don't have to be big to be a big leaguer. Look at Phil Rizzuto. He's really small and he's been one of the greatest that ever was.

  

  Nellie Fox
  • Looks
  • Bigs
  • Greatest