Alice Weaver Flaherty Quotes

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Alice Weaver Flaherty

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• You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Internet
  • Awesome
  • Surgeon

• Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Great
  • Stand
  • Gender

• Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Excitement
  • Intensity

• One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Ride

• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Look

• Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Pay
  • Too Much

• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Taken
  • Regret

• I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Learning
  • Myself
  • Express

• When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Myself
  • Cancer

• Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Human
  • Destiny
  • Patterns

• St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • World
  • Night

• I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Science
  • Always
  • Spiritual

• Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Time
  • Change
  • Player

• In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Think
  • Society
  • Easy

• I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • School
  • Law
  • Meant To Be

• The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Different

• What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • School

• In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Responsibility
  • Competition

• Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Think
  • Perfect

• The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

  

  Alice Weaver Flaherty