Alison Bechdel Quotes

Thea: Didja make your quota, Lois?Lois: Yup. Kissed a woman from every state in the union. Rhode Island was a drag queen, though. Do you think that counts?

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• Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
  • Look
  • Leap

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Country
  • You
  • College

• I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Fighting
  • Shots
  • Blocking

• Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Just Because

• I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• Sunlight is painting.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Sunlight

• As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Why
  • Me
  • Question

• The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Real
  • Unexpected

• Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything - apart from Imogen Poots.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Short

• A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Movies
  • More
  • Watch

• I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• I was quite insistent. We have quite a few pranksters in the lab and I thought this was one of them. I even congratulated the man, ironically, on his Swedish accent.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

• For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Character

• Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Imagination
  • Manipulation

• If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Science
  • Community
  • Spiritual

• Just as Nomi, my character in 'Showgirls,' gets turned on by things that challenge her or obstacles or other hurdles to overcome, those are things that I welcome and I love that.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Character
  • Challenge
  • Obstacles

• When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • War
  • Peace

• I don't care about age very much.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Age

• A lot of times, people are simply interested in seeing me because I was on television.

  

  Chris March
  • People

• Thea: Didja make your quota, Lois?Lois: Yup. Kissed a woman from every state in the union. Rhode Island was a drag queen, though. Do you think that counts?

  

  Alison Bechdel