Alison Lurie Quotes
the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.
Alison Lurie
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
Rainbow Rowell
We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
Gary Hamel
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke
A good leader must be fair.
Yao Ming
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
Walter Matthau
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
Oscar Wilde
I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
Gabriel Macht
I'm a country girl. The more big cities I go to, the more fashionistas and designers I meet who want to dress me, the more I have all these kind of superficial but amazing experiences, the more I just realize that I'm from Gloucestershire.
FKA twigs
Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.
Peggy Johnson
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle
the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.
Alison Lurie