Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes

The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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• I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Work
  • Respect

• Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • Work
  • You
  • Model

• I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Romantic

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Very
  • Involved

• Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Important
  • Transportation

• That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Great
  • Learning
  • Achieve

• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• I never met a kid I liked.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Met

• I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • People
  • Important
  • Travel

• My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Mother
  • Amazing
  • Used

• Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Live
  • Character
  • Truth

• Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Long
  • Emotions

• To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single image.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • People
  • Different
  • Single

• Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Remember
  • Forget
  • Wonderful

• I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Choose
  • Corpses
  • Graveyard

• I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Responsibility

• The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Brain
  • Forget
  • Television