Betty MacDonald Quotes

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

Betty MacDonald

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• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Like
  • Step
  • Rome

• Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Space

• It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

  

  Om Puri
  • Know
  • Lost
  • Theatre

• It is hard to say no to PSG - as with all teams capable of winning the Champions League, There is always uncertainty in football.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Football
  • Always
  • Winning

• I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Food
  • Body
  • Eating

• I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Know
  • City
  • Write

• India has a very good tradition in tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Tradition

• Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Comedy
  • Reason
  • Sick

• Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.

  

  Talcott Parsons

• A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

  

  Art Spiegelman
  • Suicide

• That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Experience
  • Competition
  • Stock

• The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • People
  • Great
  • Power

• The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.

  

  Charles T. Canady
  • Life
  • Law
  • Decision

• I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

  

  Joan Miro

• Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Poetry
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow

• Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • World
  • Good
  • King

• Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Sorrow
  • Manhood
  • Man's life

• All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Despotism

• Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.

  

  William Cowper
  • Fool
  • Youth
  • Shining

• Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Sorrow
  • Snow
  • Room