Lisa Marie Presley Quotes

I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

Lisa Marie Presley

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• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reading

• I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • People
  • Done
  • Military

• Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Swimming

• I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Society
  • First

• Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Work
  • Great
  • Nature

• It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Different
  • Home
  • Job

• I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Coast
  • Louisiana
  • Gulf

• I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Hand
  • Morning
  • Bread

• Work is what saves you.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Work
  • You
  • Saves

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • School
  • American
  • College

• I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• I'd love to play Wonder Woman.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Fans
  • Now

• I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life

• I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Bad
  • Lies

• I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Drunk

• Most men have nothing in their heads but their physical needs; put them on a desert island with nothing to occupy their minds and they would go insane. They lack real motive. The curse of civilization is boredom.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Men
  • Real
  • Desert

• I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • People
  • Time
  • Thoughts

• I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Alone

• I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.

  

  Avi
  • Book
  • American
  • Author

• Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Why

• Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Giving
  • Artist
  • Criticism

• I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley