Elizabeth Hay Quotes

And then he only had eyes for the pie. Watch any man, he could be ninety years old and drooling spit, but at the sight of homemade pie every last one of his wits will spring to attention.

Elizabeth Hay

• Attention
• Eyes
• Spring
• Watch
• Homemade

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• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Person

• Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Gold
  • Decisions

• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • God
  • Forever
  • Bus

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Sports

• When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Important
  • Help
  • Guy

• I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Love
  • Why
  • You

• There is no such thing as a black middle class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Black
  • Class
  • Middle

• It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Good
  • Consumers
  • Retail

• In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Past
  • City
  • Now

• Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Sad

• Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • True
  • Everyone
  • Be True

• I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Years
  • Watching
  • Started

• If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Fair use is not in the law.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Law

• Without the foundation of law, this vast country could never have survived as one, could never have absorbed streams of immigrants from myriad cultures. With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Country
  • America
  • War

• For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad … but I could never find me a double hammock.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Desire

• What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.

  

  Akio Morita
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.

  

  Alice Paul
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Small

• I think we labor economists like to think of ourselves as being closer to the people.

  

  David Autor
  • People

• If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Desire
  • Enjoy
  • Enemies

• I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Perspective

• Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Book
  • Present
  • Author

• And then he only had eyes for the pie. Watch any man, he could be ninety years old and drooling spit, but at the sight of homemade pie every last one of his wits will spring to attention.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Attention
  • Eyes
  • Spring