Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
Not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.Bess Streeter Aldrich
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
Gail Simmons -
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
H. G. Bissinger -
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
Patrice O'Neal -
Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
Nadia Bjorlin -
I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
Kate Bush -
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
Maggie Stiefvater -
Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar -
Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
Wendy Cope -
For me, I like to be a little bit tomboy but still look like a lady. Pretty tough. Or really, really, really pretty.
Hailey Bieber -
When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.
Barack Obama
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Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal.
Leonard Mlodinow -
How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!
Anne Frank -
In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling.
Chris Wooding -
My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.
Bob Beckel -
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
Maxwell Anderson -
It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.
James Lipton
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Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.
Amy Harmon -
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
John Wooden -
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
William Arthur Ward -
Not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
Bess Streeter Aldrich