Lisa See Quotes

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

Lisa See

• Men
• Women
• Strong
• Brave
• Agony
• Defeat & bear

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• I like to do the splits onstage.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Like
  • Onstage
  • Splits

• Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Like
  • Fan
  • Guns

• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Down
  • Cat
  • Clever

• I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Ahead

• Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Hope
  • Turn
  • Conviction

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • City
  • Habits

• It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Men
  • Mind

• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  

  Mae West
  • Work
  • You
  • Know

• The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Become
  • Gravity

• Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Home
  • American
  • Community

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • World
  • Women
  • Silence

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Men
  • Think
  • Like

• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • Education
  • College
  • Library

• I certify to Your Highnesses that in the world I believe that there are no better people nor better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and have a speech that is sweetest in the world, and mild and always laughing.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • World
  • Country
  • Heart

• Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Imagination
  • Clever
  • Prudent

• We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

  

  Lisa See
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong