Betty MacDonald Quotes
Well,- said her daddy,- your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking. And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious.
Quotes to Explore
-
The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
-
The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
-
These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
-
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
-
Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
-
The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
-
I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
-
I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.
-
I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
-
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
-
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
-
When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
-
I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.
-
I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.
-
I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
-
I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
-
One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
-
My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
-
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
-
I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
-
Tax reform is the legislative challenge of a generation for America. It hasn't been accomplished since 1986, when President Reagan and Congress delivered the most sweeping overhaul of our nation's tax code in American history. 2017 is the year to change that and make history of our own.
-
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
-
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.
-
Well,- said her daddy,- your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking. And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious.
