Lisa Unger Quotes
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.
Quotes to Explore
-
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
-
I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
-
There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
-
One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
-
All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
-
I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
-
The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
-
I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
-
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
-
I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
-
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
-
I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
-
I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
-
Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
-
I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
-
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
-
To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
-
Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
-
And just loving him with all her simple young heart and entirely believing in him, had made him, so completely commonplace before in all his utterances, suddenly—at least in the pulpit—sing. Was it acute, personal experience that one needed? Did one only cry out the truth really movingly when under some sort of lash, either of grief or ecstasy?
-
Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.
-
People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.
-
When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.
-
The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.
-
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.
