Edna Buchanan Quotes

... I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.

Edna Buchanan

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• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • You
  • Dog

• My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fall
  • English
  • Word

• Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Car

• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Made
  • Artists
  • Back

• Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lonely

• We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Same

• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nice
  • Fact
  • Diamond

• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Die
  • Changes

• The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Mean
  • Fans
  • Special

• Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Practice

• After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New York, and dedicated myself to being a full time film actor. I had the world at my feet.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Living
  • England
  • Easygoing

• I love being a mum. Sophia is so funny and has a great personality.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Personality

• Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry. The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • May
  • Enemy
  • Fire

• The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Age

• When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• After divorce, women’s biggest fear is economic deprivation; men’s biggest fear is emotional deprivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fear

• At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Freedom
  • Waiting
  • Sun

• There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • Work
  • Family
  • Why

• Spiritual beings do not sweat life's small stuff. They also know that most of what drives us crazy in life is small stuff. The only thing that isn't small stuff is the reason you're on earth in the first place: to find that portion of the world's lost heart that only you can ransom with your love and authentic gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience Wholeness.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Crazy

• During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

  

  Bob Graham
  • War
  • Listening
  • Cold

• In the simplest terms the question who or what caused the Second World War can be answered in two words: Adolf Hitler.

  

  Eric Hobsbawm
  • World
  • War
  • Words

• Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • World
  • War
  • Reality

• ... I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • War
  • Sexes
  • Conscientious