Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

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• The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

  

  Kate Klise
  • College
  • Surprise
  • Strive

• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Government

• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • World
  • Book
  • Alone

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Technology
  • Problem

• All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Women
  • Business
  • Just

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Friendship
  • Keep

• When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Money
  • Never
  • Independent

• There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Opportunity
  • Realize
  • Top

• When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Cricket
  • Month

• I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

  

  Taliesin
  • Been
  • Shapes
  • Consistent

• I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • People
  • Business
  • Small

• History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • History
  • Man

• I was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Boss

• Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.

  

  Jerry Leiber
  • Work

• Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

  

  Betty Friedan
  • Man
  • Enemy
  • Victim

• This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Different
  • Important
  • Learning

• Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Character
  • Beginning
  • Literature

• Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Appreciation
  • Prize

• In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Cancer
  • Shoulders
  • Shakes