Gertrude Atherton Quotes

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

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• Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Eye
  • Shadow

• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Big Fan

• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Good
  • Past

• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Atmosphere
  • Brains

• I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Like
  • Awesome
  • Brilliant

• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Sometimes
  • Competitive

• I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Today
  • Culture
  • Hate

• After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Life
  • Education
  • My Life

• The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Why
  • Knowledge

• Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Work
  • Health

• Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Free
  • Know
  • Slavery

• You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Learn

• Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sun

• I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.

  

  Fleur East
  • Up
  • Living
  • Just

• Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • World
  • Famous

• “People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot of time thinking about that. It's harder to get by when getting by is all there is.”

  

  C Robert Cargill
  • Day
  • Purpose
  • Spend

• I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.

  

  Kevin Richardson
  • Tree

• She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Soul
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• After long and careful consideration, we have elected not to match the offer sheet presented to us by Lamar Odom, ... In the final analysis, the decision was based on issues of character and other risks involved.

  

  Elgin Baylor
  • Long
  • Character
  • Decision

• It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Character
  • Learn
  • Fate