William McKeen Quotes

Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.

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• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
  • Beginning
  • Star

• I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Books

• My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • She
  • Mother
  • Person

• Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Morning
  • News

• I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Question

• In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • World
  • Mother
  • Grace

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

  

  Ice T
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Black

• You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Mother
  • Know
  • Brother

• My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mother
  • Person
  • Born

• My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Mother
  • High

• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mother
  • Language
  • Thought

• My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Mother
  • Know
  • Amazing

• A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mother
  • Man
  • Wife

• Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Art
  • Mother

• When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • World
  • Mother
  • Yourself

• Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Up
  • May
  • Mother

• The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Reality

• My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Life
  • Gifts
  • Contemplate

• We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a barrel of oil is going to be controlled by the Middle East for the next 10, 20, 30 years for sure.

  

  Michael Mullen
  • Energy
  • Independence
  • Middle

• Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Different
  • Communication

• My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

  

  John Frusciante
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.

  

  William McKeen
  • Mother
  • Hunters