Gabrielle Roy Quotes

She moved slowly, and her coat, too tight, made her belly stick out more prominently. With the two dollars deep in her purse she wandered off, more uncertain than ever, for now she saw the shining pans and pots and the cloth, so soft to the touch. Her desires grew vast and many, and she left, poorer certainly than when she had come in the store.

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• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I have my dad's shape. No booty.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Dad
  • Shape
  • Booty

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Problem
  • Being
  • Stage

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Hero
  • Loved
  • Him

• I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Bed
  • Obsession
  • Ship

• If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Conflict

• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Birth was the death of him.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Him

• I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I eat next to nothing.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nothing
  • Next
  • Eat

• Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Know
  • Author

• For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• 'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Age
  • Black

• I can honestly say I had the time of my life in London. I don't regret one part of it, and I have never wanted the moment to end.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Regret

• What I do is create images, period.

  

  Frank Frazetta
  • Period

• Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Water

• I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

  

  Walter Scott
  • She

• Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?" "I've used it against him," Harry said quietly. "It saved my life last June.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Help

• She moved slowly, and her coat, too tight, made her belly stick out more prominently. With the two dollars deep in her purse she wandered off, more uncertain than ever, for now she saw the shining pans and pots and the cloth, so soft to the touch. Her desires grew vast and many, and she left, poorer certainly than when she had come in the store.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • She
  • Deep