Elizabeth Wein Quotes

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• My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • See
  • Throw

• I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Things

• I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.

  

  Dan Severson
  • People
  • You
  • Church

• The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Death
  • Waiting
  • Measure

• When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Women
  • Desire

• A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Kiss
  • Feel Good
  • Tiara

• We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

  

  Sandy Duncan
  • Want
  • Greed
  • Raised

• In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Influence

• Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Health
  • Income
  • Nigeria

• A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Energy
  • Failure
  • Persons

• Targets don't fight crime.

  

  Theresa May
  • Fight
  • Crime
  • Targets

• Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Learning
  • Weird
  • Difficult

• Whisky has always tasted like introspection to me, a quiet moment after taking a sip, the lingering aftertaste, inviting you to ponder upon the flavours on your tongue.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Tongue
  • Whisky
  • Flavours

• When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Book
  • Scared
  • Depressing

• We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Earth
  • Built
  • Remains

• Careless talk costs lives.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Costs
  • Careless