Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

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• I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Family

• The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Way
  • Looking

• I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Practice
  • Road
  • Boy

• You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.

  

  T-Pain
  • Hate
  • TV
  • Britney Spears

• They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Know
  • Heaven

• Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Reading
  • Daily
  • Forget

• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Moral

• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Job
  • True

• But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Government

• I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Moving
  • Sea
  • Happen

• Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Best

• You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Moment

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Change
  • Religion
  • Revelation

• The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Good
  • Great
  • Success

• I don't think nobody should compare me to anyone, 'cause, at the end of the day, you've got a 'Pac, you've got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne - there's only one Jeezy, man. Ain't nobody walked in these shoes but me.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Man
  • Day
  • End

• Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • Work

• With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Control

• Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

  

  Kenny Chesney
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Time
  • Good

• All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Changing

• Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

  

  Ambrose Bierce