Elizabeth Cunningham Quotes

How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger.

Elizabeth Cunningham

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• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Age

• I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Day

• Politics is not an exact science.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Exact

• In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Real
  • School

• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Fashion

• I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • She
  • Child

• I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Reading

• I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Live
  • Think
  • Start

• We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Up
  • Change
  • Win

• I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Always
  • Gift
  • Suspicious

• I love the smell of a man's skin.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Love
  • Man
  • Smell

• The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92

  

  Irving Kirsch

• I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Beautiful

• Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while the morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don’t complain when the roof comes down.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Real

• We are entering the dimension where we have control - the inside.

  

  Byron Katie
  • Control

• When Chrissie Hynde was inducted into the Hall of Fame, I, of course, was there to see that because I have to back up the girl. When it was over, I said we needed to have a party for Chrissie in my hotel suite. I didn't really know her, but it was great.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Girl
  • Inducted
  • Hotel Suite

• When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Society
  • Education
  • Choices

• It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

  

  William Pickens
  • Problem
  • Consider
  • Is-ness

• How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger.

  

  Elizabeth Cunningham
  • Water
  • Finger
  • Slice