Ophelia Lovibond Quotes
I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?' and they'll be like, 'Yeah, now let me read it.'
Quotes to Explore
-
It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
-
I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
-
My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
-
My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
-
Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
-
I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
-
My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
-
I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
-
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
-
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
-
Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
-
I don't want to be someone else.
-
If the constitution goes, I go.
-
I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
-
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
-
A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
-
Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
-
If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
-
The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
-
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
-
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
-
The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.
-
I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?' and they'll be like, 'Yeah, now let me read it.'
