Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes

People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Real
  • Happy
  • Myself

• Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Want
  • Characters
  • Watch

• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Persistence

• There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • World
  • Collection
  • Liked

• The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Find

• I've been engaged a couple times.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Couple
  • Been
  • Engaged

• I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Hate
  • Religion

• I'm always preparing for a regular life.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Life
  • Always
  • Regular

• Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • Know
  • Nothing

• Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Perspective

• I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Bad

• O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• I've always thought 'Southern Accents' would make an amazing country song. It's always spoken to me. I've always loved it. Every time I hear that song, it reminds me of my dad.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Time
  • Country
  • Song

• Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Person
  • Face
  • Greatest

• Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• Generally I'm wide open to people; I love helping them in any way I possibly can. But for me to invest, a business has to have a lot of creative scale; it has to be unique.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • People
  • Way
  • Unique

• If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.

  

  James Purefoy
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Once you're on, nobody can say, 'Cut it.' You're out there on your own, and there's always that thrill of a real live audience.

  

  Jason Robards
  • Live
  • Real

• People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • People
  • Baby