Gail Sheehy Quotes

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Gail Sheehy

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• Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Him

• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Art
  • May
  • Dream

• Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.

  

  R. Kelly
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Clothes

• I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Up
  • Great
  • Small

• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Simple
  • Present

• There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Deep
  • Childhood
  • Meaningful

• I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Doing

• Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • May
  • Many
  • Someday

• Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • May
  • Greatest
  • Privilege

• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Time
  • Drama

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Imagination
  • Doubt

• I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Beautiful
  • Childhood
  • Child

• Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Work
  • May
  • Simple

• When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Family
  • Home
  • Movie

• It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Up
  • May
  • Nice

• Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Food
  • Change
  • Relationship

• Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • May
  • You
  • Environment

• Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Real
  • May

• The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science - that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

  

  Elizabeth Kenny
  • May
  • American
  • Science

• Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

  

  Edwin Starr
  • Country
  • May

• 'High (drive/fly ball) into (left/center/etc.) field, and deep. Back goes (fielder's name), a-way back, it's gone!' (Or '… to the warning track, to the fence/wall, gone!')

  

  Vin Scully
  • High
  • Deep
  • Wall

• NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Football
  • Player
  • Silly

• Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • May
  • Childhood
  • Grow