Lloyd Alexander Quotes

We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

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• I love ABC Family!

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Family
  • Love
  • I Love

• Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Hands
  • Looking

• We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • School
  • Africa
  • Canada

• Money just draws flies.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • Just
  • Flies

• The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Intelligence
  • Attracted

• I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Remember
  • Space
  • Moment

• I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Day

• There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Heart
  • Forever
  • Part

• The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Up
  • Real
  • Taken

• It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Life
  • True
  • Damn

• 'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Love
  • Experience

• I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Simple
  • Myself

• I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Money
  • Think
  • Die

• The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Question
  • Day

• I was so tall and so skinny - I was that kid who couldn't find anything to wear. All the cool kids would have jeans the right length and I would just think, 'What am I going to do?'

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Cool

• An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • God
  • Heart
  • Mad

• 'The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.''Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Law

• We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Up
  • God
  • Earth

• Talent is what makes you stand in awe of a human.

  

  Cory Asbury
  • Human
  • Talent
  • Awe

• I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

  

  Janis Ian
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• If you can't see it, you can't be it. It's just having those brilliant women break out and do something - then other girls can say, 'I can do it, too!'

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • Women

• The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. Together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance, and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Together
  • Today
  • Technology

• We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

  

  Lloyd Alexander