Lynn Coady Quotes
I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
Quotes to Explore
-
Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
-
Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
-
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
-
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
-
The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
-
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
-
Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
-
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
-
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
-
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
-
It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
-
Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
-
I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
-
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
-
I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
-
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
-
The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
-
I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
-
Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.
-
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
-
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
-
I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.
-
I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
