Emily Yoffe Quotes
When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
-
People take things so seriously.
-
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
-
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
-
Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
-
I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
-
You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
-
I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
-
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
-
I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
-
Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
-
It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
-
I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'
-
I just like being on stage and making people happy.
-
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
-
I would like to be more active outside of Israel.
-
I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.
-
There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
-
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness.
-
I'm new to this TV thing, at least as an actor. It's a challenge. The thing I have to adjust to is the changing directors every week. That's new for me. I tend to establish with a director - and then two days later, he's gone.
-
It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.
-
I really think the biggest honor, as a comic, is to get roasted by either the Friars Club or the Comedy Central or someone like that. Because it really shows, you know, that you've arrived.
-
When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.
