Lisa Unger Quotes

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

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• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Look
  • Hide
  • Eighteen

• I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Man
  • Mean
  • Door

• The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

  

  Larry Williams
  • Time
  • Day
  • Down

• The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Search
  • Transparency

• I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Future

• I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Kids
  • Very
  • Blind

• I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Sense
  • Personally

• I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Same

• My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • World
  • Amazing
  • Travel

• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Hate
  • Know

• I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Heaven

• And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Good
  • College
  • Questions

• Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Like
  • Check

• O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• 'I don’t plan to die for any cause,' said Jim Bowie. 'Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain’t noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Die

• 'Jeeves,' I said, and I am free to admit that in my emotion I bleated like a lamb drawing itself to the attention of the parent sheep, 'what the dickens is all this?'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Free
  • Attention
  • Drawing

• It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Simple

• If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know that I want to settle there. I prefer the creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, and that sound will inform every syllable I write. I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy, and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and, above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.

  

  Bernice Rubens
  • Write
  • Humor
  • Historical

• I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy
  • Good

• If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

  

  Lisa Unger