Betty MacDonald Quotes
Certainly,' said his mother, 'but first I want to know about the accident with your bicycle.' Well,' Phillip said, 'if you wanta really know. I was sitting in the basket of my bike ridin' down Mission Hill backwards singing 'Polly Wolly Doodle' and I saw the bread truck comin' and I guess I didn't turn soon enough and I ran into the Wallaces' iron fence and I caught my shoe on the pedal and my pants on a picket and I hit my eye on the handlebars and I don't know what else happened. But, boy, you should have heard the kids and that ole breadman laugh!Betty MacDonald
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
Laura Linney -
The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
Tamsin Egerton -
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
Eddie Albert -
Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
Daniel Cormier -
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. King -
That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
Maelle Gavet
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay -
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
Haldan Keffer Hartline -
When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
Valerie June -
I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Being in love is the best thing in my life.
Olivia Newton-John -
There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
Zubin Mehta
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Walter Lippmann -
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot -
I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
Zooey Deschanel -
Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
Campbell Scott -
I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
Rachael Taylor -
I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
Zara Phillips
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Parenting is not just about you and your kid; it's also about whomever you're parenting your child with. So there is a kind of 'awareness' involved for everybody. It's all about the way you interact with your child and participate in your child's life.
Anna Getty -
I used to love the 'Star Trek' movies, 'Wrath of Khan' and stuff like that. Loved those movies when I was a kid. And 'Star Wars' obviously was hands-down probably - I mean I had the sheets. I was a big fan of that.
Michael Ealy -
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
Kate Millett -
I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
Patrice O'Neal -
Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
Cherrie Moraga -
Certainly,' said his mother, 'but first I want to know about the accident with your bicycle.' Well,' Phillip said, 'if you wanta really know. I was sitting in the basket of my bike ridin' down Mission Hill backwards singing 'Polly Wolly Doodle' and I saw the bread truck comin' and I guess I didn't turn soon enough and I ran into the Wallaces' iron fence and I caught my shoe on the pedal and my pants on a picket and I hit my eye on the handlebars and I don't know what else happened. But, boy, you should have heard the kids and that ole breadman laugh!
Betty MacDonald