Gertrude Atherton Quotes

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

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• One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Important
  • Done
  • Service

• I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • World
  • Hand

• Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

  

  Mako
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Stereotypes

• And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Why

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Thought

• Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • People
  • Church
  • Jesus

• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Anything
  • States
  • Collective

• When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Man
  • Political
  • Building

• You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Character
  • Guy
  • You

• I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Style
  • Like

• Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Impossible
  • Program
  • Been

• I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Love
  • Language
  • Thing

• My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Learn
  • Inspiration

• Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Men
  • Today
  • Direction

• I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Hope
  • Pressure
  • Someone

• I try to eat fruit and be healthy.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Try
  • Healthy
  • Fruit

• September 11 either made me love this country or it made me realize how much I already did. I think it's the latter. Seeing "Fahrenheit 9/11" made me think deeply about love of country - how it molds us, drives and emboldens us and how it can sometimes make us so angry, we want to shout out to the world: 'No, this is wrong.'

  

  Patti Davis
  • World
  • Country
  • Angry

• Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Age

• My mom used to cut out articles from the 'Atlanta Journal Constitution' when I was in high school. She would either give them to me to read or she would post them on the fridge. These articles would usually be stories of someone inventing something, breaking records, or achieving some kind of success.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • School
  • She
  • High

• We never remember days, only moments.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Remember
  • Moments
  • Days

• Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Women
  • Season
  • Designed