Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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• Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Now
  • Saying

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• I really am a woman at peace.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Peace
  • Woman
  • Really

• So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Now
  • Sword
  • Now And Then

• There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Great
  • Too Much
  • Then

• Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Like
  • Quarter

• Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Great
  • Write
  • Working

• It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Day
  • Balance

• It's not my ambition to be a big star.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Star
  • Ambition
  • Big

• My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Me
  • Husband
  • Too Much

• If you are ready to put a product or service on the market, look at that product or service and see how you can test it inexpensively. Keep in mind, you'll only need one; you don't need 1,000 to get the answer.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Service
  • Test

• I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Political
  • Black

• How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almost like kill the next one. And it usually works I would say 9 times out of 10.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Bad
  • Angry
  • Say

• I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Love
  • Amazing

• I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Finish

• To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Romantic
  • Thing
  • Most

• Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Remember
  • Success

• I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Fall

• My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.

  

  Keala Settle
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

  

  Edmund White
  • Point
  • Novels
  • Seven

• If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • World
  • Business
  • Pretty

• Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I'm 60. But I'm not Hal Ashby, I'm not Roman Polanski. I'm true to myself. Whether you like it or not.

  

  Brett Ratner
  • True
  • Movie
  • Small

• Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Health
  • Silent
  • Illness