Bertrice Small Quotes

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

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• I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Color

• The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • American
  • Political
  • Revolution

• What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Music
  • She
  • Happy

• We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Stand
  • Shine

• I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Think
  • Athlete
  • Grace

• There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Enemy
  • Idea
  • Something

• I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Book
  • Moving
  • Listening

• AT&T is interested in anything that drives more bandwidth requirements, and Apple TV drives significant bandwidth, and the iPhone drives significant bandwidth, and so I think it's a very logical fit.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Think
  • Apple
  • iPhone

• Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Life
  • Joy
  • My Life

• The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Ninja

• I just couldn't sit through Harold and Maude one more time, ... Diane has really old tastes for a woman her age.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Time
  • Age
  • Woman

• Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • People

• There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Dumb

• My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Friends
  • Mean
  • Goal

• Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.

  

  Brady Udall
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Reason

• If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending

  

  William Loren Katz
  • People
  • Believe
  • Humanity

• There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Dream
  • Storm
  • Snow

• Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Quality

• The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Reason
  • Care
  • Seems

• Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

  

  Bertrice Small
  • Blessing
  • Seems
  • Curse