Lynne Truss Quotes
I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.Lynne Truss
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I am not an American; I am the American.
Val Kilmer -
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
Ian Mckellen -
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam Harris -
Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
Natalie Massenet -
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
Kate Beckinsale -
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
Ted Turner
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Harrison Ford -
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner -
When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
Nancy Lublin -
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo -
I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
J. K. Simmons
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
Danica Patrick -
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim -
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
Vernon Howard -
I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
Octavia Spencer -
Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
Randy Travis
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The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
Fernando Pessoa -
Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
Natalie Wood -
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
Bryant H. McGill -
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
David Bailey -
I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.
Lynne Truss