Zoe Akins (Zoe Byrd Akins) Quotes

The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.

Zoe Akins

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• Watches
• Sour

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• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Inspired

• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Control

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Men
  • Action
  • Move

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Break
  • Now
  • Modern

• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Education
  • College

• Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Men
  • Three
  • Lady

• My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Job
  • Bad
  • Speak

• I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Job
  • Think
  • Down

• What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Know
  • Explain

• How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Hand
  • Movies
  • See

• My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Everyone

• My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Relationship
  • Body
  • Boss

• Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Death
  • Silent

• The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Country
  • Me
  • Stand

• The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay, which they may not have known before, and they realize this person has the same aspirations and desires and need to be committed and to be part of a community - then they become more accepting.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • May
  • Community

• I'm afraid to fail again.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Afraid
  • Fail
  • Again

• I used to write reviews for 'Artbomb.' Our policy was to only cover books we loved and recommended.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

• I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Moon
  • Fly

• The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.

  

  Zoe Akins
  • World
  • Made
  • Failing