Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes

You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.

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• A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Good
  • Age
  • Pretty

• At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Love
  • Think
  • Death

• When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Right

• Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Emotion
  • Sense
  • Jealousy

• Europe was the major surprise for the month.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Surprise
  • Europe
  • Month

• To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Money
  • Goal
  • Commodity

• Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Women
  • Book
  • American

• Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Behavior
  • Effect
  • Outcomes

• Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

  

  N. F. Simpson
  • Reality
  • Food
  • Drinking

• The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Fear

• I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

  

  Wade Guyton
  • Work
  • Museums
  • Postcards

• I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Government

• I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Faces

• Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

  

  Carolyn Kizer
  • Faces
  • Concerned
  • Mirrors

• A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Plan
  • Employees
  • Edge

• You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Looks
  • Faces
  • Gorgeous