Waris Dirie Quotes

Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.

Waris Dirie

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• I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Process
  • Saying

• Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Light
  • Control
  • Brain

• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Say
  • Flowers

• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Like
  • Hurts
  • Botox

• To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Yourself
  • Destiny
  • Transform

• What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Me
  • Stop

• I like to build things. I like to do things.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Like
  • Things
  • Build

• Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • You
  • Tough

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• 'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Character
  • Career
  • Singer

• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Lose

• Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Energy
  • Civilization
  • Skill

• I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.

  

  Jay Parini
  • True
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• I've always been interested in art.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Art

• When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • God
  • Believe
  • Confidence

• Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Wake Up

• Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Comfortable