Lillian Hellman Quotes

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

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• You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Time
  • You
  • Routine

• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • More
  • Exciting
  • Smaller

• I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Long
  • Love

• I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Write
  • Interest
  • Watch

• I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Family
  • Surviving

• Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Will

• Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Wanted

• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Intelligent

• India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • May
  • Problems
  • Place

• I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Government
  • Happiness
  • Pursue

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Myself
  • End

• In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Collaboration

• It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • People
  • Lyrics

• Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.

  

  Jim Irsay
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Business
  • Iron
  • Steel

• When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

  

  David Chase

• I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

  

  Lillian Hellman
  • People