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

• Career
• Girl
• Fashion
• Damage
• Playboy
• Cosmopolitan

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• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Like

• You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Everything
  • Far
  • Magnificent

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Grow
  • U.S.
  • Must

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Team
  • Alone

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Bull
  • Rider

• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
  • Before
  • Wrote

• We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Known
  • Few
  • Munich

• 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
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Wisdom

• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Shadows

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Writing
  • She
  • Book

• When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Sex

• As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Career
  • Parents

• I established early what I was and wasn't willing to accept. People tried to say what I had to do, whether it be pop or R&B, to be successful. Even when I was in the girl group, they would try to make our voices sound very radio-friendly and fit that mold. But even before I got signed, I knew who I was and who I wanted to be.

  

  Andra Day
  • People
  • Girl

• I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

  

  John Wesley
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• 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
  • Career
  • Girl
  • Fashion