Lynne Truss Quotes
I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
-
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
-
I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
-
For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
-
Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
-
I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
-
Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
-
My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
-
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
-
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
-
I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
-
To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
-
I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
-
I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
-
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
-
Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
-
I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
-
So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.
-
All of those really big hits I remember. I put one on him. I've given people a lot of those.
-
I loved Lauryn Hill; I loved the Fugees.
-
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
-
I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.
