Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes

I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.

Brenda Shaughnessy

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• Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Loyalty

• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Interesting
  • News

• The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Book
  • Earth

• I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Know
  • Always
  • Smoking

• My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Shadow
  • Hip Hop

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Crazy
  • Doing
  • Old

• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Know
  • Look

• To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Me

• I consider myself a little weak.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Myself
  • Little
  • Weak

• Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • History
  • Garden
  • Impossible

• I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• You don't swing where you sleep.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Where

• A long period of distress and anarchy, in which empire, and arts, and riches, had migrated from the banks of the Tiber, was incapable of restoring or adorning the city; and, as all that is human must retrograde if it do not advance, every successive age must have hastened the ruin of the works of antiquity.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Long
  • Age
  • City

• I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Together
  • Support

• When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

• Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.

  

  Daniel Portman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Nice

• If it wasn't for my dad, I would never have known about pentathlon, because it's not popular at all in Australia.

  

  Chloe Esposito
  • Dad
  • Popular

• One fan sent me one tooth, so I made a necklace out of it. But then I found a bunch of my baby teeth, and started realizing I would love to wear a piece of my fans' bodies on me.

  

  Kesha
  • Baby

• Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • America
  • Want

• I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.

  

  Nick Moran
  • Family
  • Baby
  • Selfish

• I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.

  

  Brenda Shaughnessy
  • Baby
  • Spill