Irene Dunne Quotes
It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
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Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.
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There are conspiracy theorists who think I was crafted in a boardroom. Because I'm so very relatable and so very topical and so very Tumblr.
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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
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Listening in response to criticism mandates a shift in our internal psyche that marks perhaps the most important single evolutionary shift humans can make.
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The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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At school I was an anti-magnet for women.
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Autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.
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I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.
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It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.
