Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes

Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.

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• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Joy
  • Gratitude
  • Thankful

• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Focus

• Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • You
  • Listening

• We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Afraid
  • Fears
  • Clowns

• You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Children
  • Friends

• I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Time
  • Week
  • Doctor

• The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Violence
  • Ego

• Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway? From the coast of California to the shores of The Delaware Bay You can bet your life I did, till I got back in the U.S.A.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Life
  • Long
  • California

• I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Fighting

• An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Literature

• By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker

• I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Work
  • Career
  • Wedding

• Just making a good movie is hard to do.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Good
  • Movie

• Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.

  

  Don Bluth
  • Up
  • May
  • Picture

• Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

  

  Dave Morris
  • Bad
  • Giving

• The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • May

• I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Up
  • Home
  • Night

• I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Girl

• People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, 'I'm not the first one. I'm not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.'

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • Up
  • Time

• Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

  

  Milton Glaser
  • Cooking
  • Computer
  • Microwaves

• Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Thinking
  • Girl