Christina Stead Quotes

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

Christina Stead

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• Washington
• Officials
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• Debauch

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• I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • New

• 'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.

  

  Randy West
  • Great
  • Game
  • Moments

• When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Music
  • Fun

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Know
  • Reason
  • End

• I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Life
  • Time
  • City

• 3D printers give us what we've all been craving: another reason to talk to technical support. When you finally get the thing working, though, you'll be able to print out your grocery list as a cube! When you look up directions online, you can print the map out on a globe!

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • Support
  • Reason

• When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Food

• Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Life
  • Anger
  • Room

• Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Marriage
  • End
  • Pride

• I did a voice for this video game called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun. I had a great time, especially since I could show up in PJs and not have to worry about how I looked.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • Comedies

• Sometimes, I'm just a fan of the guy, and we'll switch jerseys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Sometimes
  • Fan

• I know there will be X amount of women being diagnosed. I love to say, You can get through it. You can.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Women
  • Health
  • Woman

• I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

  

  Little Richard
  • Up
  • God
  • Rock

• It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Moral
  • Compromised

• See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• I believe the happiest moments of your life are yet to come.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Moments

• Teaching girls to agitate over every problem implies that relationships, and people, can bend to our will.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • People
  • Problem
  • Relationships

• All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Men
  • Girls

• The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Cold
  • Bigs
  • Century

• I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Girls
  • Washington
  • Officials