Carol Thatcher Quotes

Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle.

Carol Thatcher

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• I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Past
  • Never
  • Name

• Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Hair
  • Nightmares
  • Pale

• True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • True
  • Suffering

• We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Peace
  • Never

• Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Door

• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Lady
  • Seen

• Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • System
  • Bank
  • Fails

• At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Love
  • Single
  • Beginning

• My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Parents

• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Times
  • U.S.
  • Some

• The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Freedom
  • Loss
  • Presence

• In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Free

• Only the dead are free of the influence of others.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Free

• What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Men
  • Present

• But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Nature

• Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Good

• Got bitches on my jock out in East Detroit, cause they think that I'm a motherfucking Beastie Boy.

  

  Eminem
  • Boy

• I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Up
  • Powerful
  • Texas

• I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

  

  Will Smith
  • Believe

• If we continue to eschew science ... we are not going to move forward. We will not embrace natural laws. We will not make discoveries. We will not invent and innovate and stay ahead.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Science

• People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

  

  Ann Patchett
  • People
  • Time
  • Bad

• My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Writing
  • School
  • Father

• When I have any sort of diet that's high in sugar or yeast, I would find that my body would be very much out of whack.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • High

• Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle.

  

  Carol Thatcher
  • Dog
  • Cat
  • Loyal