Alison Bechdel Quotes
Lois: Good coffee, huh?Emma: Lois, I think you're a very attractive woman and I'd like to sleep with you.Lois: chokes Gak! Ahem! You don't - coff - fool around, do you?Emma: No, but I'd like to.Alison Bechdel
Quotes to Explore
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
Jack Dangermond -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Sam Rayburn -
Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
Venus Williams
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
Randy Pausch -
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith -
What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
Kate Hudson -
Making music is fantastic.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
Naveen Jain -
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
Quentin Tarantino -
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
Malcolm Lowry -
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius -
Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski -
What you see is what you get.
Van Morrison
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou -
I'd like to wrestle an alligator and fly a fighter jet.
Frankie Ballard -
I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
Laura Haddock -
I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
Valerie June -
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
Azar Nafisi -
Lois: Good coffee, huh?Emma: Lois, I think you're a very attractive woman and I'd like to sleep with you.Lois: chokes Gak! Ahem! You don't - coff - fool around, do you?Emma: No, but I'd like to.
Alison Bechdel