Allison Pearson Quotes

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

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• But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Great
  • Hair
  • Oil

• Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Congress
  • Corruption
  • Mine

• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Going
  • Been
  • Where

• Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Different
  • Own
  • Personal

• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Guilty

• I have an appetite to always learn.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Always
  • Learn
  • Appetite

• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Students

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Day

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Girl
  • Stop
  • Week

• When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Nature
  • See
  • Back

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Work
  • May

• Of writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,-Will write my story for my better self,As when you paint your portrait for a friend,Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at itLong after he has ceased to love you, justTo hold together what he was and is.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Friend

• From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Empathy
  • Views
  • Outsiders

• I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women