Irene Dunne Quotes

Surely it isn't entirely normal to see fingers pointing at you as a rare species, the only one in captivity!

Irene Dunne

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I went to her salon, but could not afford any of her dresses myself, though I loved them. Miss Carnegie suggested I do a garden in exchange for a coat and dress, and so I designed and planted a garden for her.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Garden

• I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Different
  • Nature

• When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Different
  • Car
  • Door

• I've been loving music all my life.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Support
  • Government
  • Sports

• Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Alone
  • Amazing

• One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Money
  • Think

• Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Important
  • Power
  • Day

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Refuge

• Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Human
  • Information

• Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Illness
  • Mental Illness

• The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Myself
  • Pressure
  • Accomplish

• I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Good
  • Group
  • Gaming

• Come one, come all! This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Rock
  • Fly

• Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• Bitch, I ain't no fucking G, I'm a cannibal! I ain't trying to shoot you, I'm trying to chop you into pieces and eat you!

  

  Eminem
  • Trying

• Germans have a rather healthy respect for the arts and artists, could not be more different from the British perspective.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Different
  • Respect
  • Perspective

• In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Kids
  • Garden
  • Kitchen

• The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

  

  Hu Shih
  • World
  • Justice
  • Eye

• When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • Different
  • Songs

• We built 'Jade Empire,' then we built 'Mass Effect,' then we built 'Dragon Age.' With those last two, when you're dealing with two big ideas that are on their third iterations, you develop some strategies for managing your lore, or you drown!

  

  Marc Laidlaw
  • Age

• Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Intelligence
  • Artificial
  • Super-duper

• Surely it isn't entirely normal to see fingers pointing at you as a rare species, the only one in captivity!

  

  Irene Dunne