Cathy Guisewite Quotes

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

Cathy Guisewite

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• I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Today
  • Government
  • Vote

• No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Help
  • Support
  • Emotional

• I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Eyes
  • Presence
  • Venice

• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Be obscure clearly.

  

  E. B. White
  • Funny
  • Obscure
  • Clearly

• Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Help
  • High
  • Strong

• I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Beautiful

• Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Experience
  • Atomic Bomb

• I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Day

• Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Helping
  • Ashamed
  • Damage

• Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Words
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Good
  • Career
  • Nice

• In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Company
  • Accountability

• I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Want
  • Question
  • Wind

• I’ve seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just don’t want that in my life.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Life
  • Lives

• I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Giving
  • Point
  • Crush

• United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

  

  Nicanor Parra
  • Country
  • Poetry
  • Liberty

• I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

  

  Simon Winchester
  • Society
  • Science
  • Effects

• Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Point
  • Mother`s
  • Daughters