Cathleen Schine Quotes
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.
Quotes to Explore
-
We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
-
You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
-
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
-
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
-
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
-
My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
-
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
-
Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
-
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
-
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.
-
Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
-
We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
-
If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
-
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
-
If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.
-
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
-
Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.
-
I like to go on really nice dates. I've made some money, but I don't spend it on anything besides my rent. But I go to nice dinners. And I like to go with a girl.
-
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
-
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
-
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
-
In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
-
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.
