Alice Hoffman Quotes

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Hope

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.

  

  Washed Out
  • Done
  • Want
  • Past

• If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Home
  • Travel

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Find

• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Family
  • Dying
  • Living

• Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Health

• Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Writing is the supreme solace.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Communication

• I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Want
  • Talk

• I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Fearless

• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Country
  • Day

• Yes, the people I draw don't have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I'll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie; he'll just have a collar.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • People
  • Up

• There's always going to be people who say, 'This ain't country.' But that's fine; that's how it is. Those same people aren't listening to Sam Hunt, aren't listening to FGL. But obviously, a lot of people are.

  

  Chris Lane
  • People
  • Country
  • Listening

• I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

  

  Lara Stone
  • Up
  • Love
  • Parents

• Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

  

  Marquis de Sade

• The plant laboratories in which this wonderful and vitally essential transformation is effected are chiefly located in the leaf of the plant... the thoughtful person must regard this structure-the most ordinary green leaf of tree or shrub or vine or the tiniest blade of grass-as in some respects the most wonderful thing in the world.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • World
  • Tree
  • Green

• It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

  

  Alice Hoffman
  • World
  • Great