Geraldine Brooks Quotes

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

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• I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Like
  • Sports
  • Dirty

• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • High
  • Like

• For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.

  

  Lance Gross
  • You
  • Like
  • Person

• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Stage

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Like
  • Worry
  • Too Much

• I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Show

• I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Day
  • Like
  • Pushing

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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  • Feel
  • Wall

• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • You
  • Like
  • Abuse

• I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Like
  • Feel

• I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
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  • Chosen

• I like to challenge myself.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Challenge

• I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

  

  Nanci Griffith
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  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Like
  • Star

• I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Words
  • Where
  • ERA

• I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

  

  George Combe
  • Air
  • Cold

• I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Different
  • Imagination
  • Preparation

• To say that 'wealth in America is so unfairly distributed in America,' as Ronald Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth in the United States is not distributed: at all. People create it, earn it, save it, and spend it.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Wealth
  • Mislead

• She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

  

  Geraldine Brooks
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  • Wings
  • Butterfly