Elizabeth Hay Quotes

Where do they come from, these things that say more than we know and more than we intend?

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• My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • City
  • Air
  • Sun

• Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • College
  • Myself
  • Never

• With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Books
  • Will
  • Talk

• I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Myself

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Science
  • Opinion
  • Mathematics

• The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • World
  • Me
  • Loved

• I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Think
  • Career
  • Theatre

• When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • She
  • Mom
  • Said

• It is always the unreadable that occurs.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Always
  • Occurs
  • Unreadable

• The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Military
  • Discipline

• But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Live
  • Fact
  • Take

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Ghosts

• I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Success
  • Reason
  • Successful

• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Moving
  • Look
  • September

• If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Want
  • Risk

• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Why
  • Know
  • Question

• People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • See
  • Privacy

• But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Friend
  • Mistake
  • Friendship

• Where do they come from, these things that say more than we know and more than we intend?

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Know
  • Intend