Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes

Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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• Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Question
  • Purpose

• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Year
  • Started
  • Shell

• Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Always
  • Rather
  • Whiskey

• My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Reason

• Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Study
  • Try
  • Computers

• One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Best

• The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

  

  Basil Hume
  • God
  • Hope
  • Confidence

• A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Single

• Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

  

  Chrysippus
  • Fate

• In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Band

• I saturated myself with the improv community.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Community

• What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start to merge with machines in a more robust way, at some point, we'll cease to be identifiably human. And therefore, I think our humanity is, in some ways, the thing that's under existential threat.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Worry

• The Federal Reserve - all of them - could be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, and then pouring gasoline on top of it, and then light a cigar with matches, throw the match into the gasoline, and then not notice that there is any danger.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Light

• Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

  

  John Updike
  • Sex

• Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.

  

  Stephen Dobyns
  • Women
  • Sex
  • Own

• You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart the rejectionist states, like Iraq, then the whole Middle East would reconfigure itself into a more favorable environment for democracy and Israel and us.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Environment

• Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Relationship
  • Sex
  • Petrol