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

• If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you.

  

  Epictetus
  • Judgment
  • Response
  • Irritates

• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friend
  • Feel
  • Sorrow

• All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

  

  S. Ansky
  • Himself
  • Jew
  • Few

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

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Sorrow
  • Snow
  • Room