Irene Dunne Quotes

It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.

Irene Dunne

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• I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • History
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Life
  • You
  • Jeans

• I never thought I was a very good manager.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Manager

• I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Boy

• The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Poetry
  • Beauty
  • Themes

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Memories

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • True
  • Man
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Very
  • Conspiracy

• 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.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • God
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • American
  • Help
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Welcome

• Listening in response to criticism mandates a shift in our internal psyche that marks perhaps the most important single evolutionary shift humans can make.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Single
  • Listening

• The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Age

• Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Livy
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Humble

• All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Children
  • Babies

• Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Know
  • Walking
  • Cat

• Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

  

  Bernard Barton
  • Earth
  • Feeling
  • Small

• She wished he’d stop touching her. Not because she didn’t like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Long
  • She
  • Stop

• It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.

  

  Irene Dunne