Lois McMaster Quotes

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

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• On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Character
  • Stage

• 'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Business
  • Politicians

• I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • School
  • High
  • Strong

• I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Today
  • Feel
  • Old

• And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?

  

  Harper Lee
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Father

• While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Live
  • Real
  • Heart

• I've always been inspired by Patti LuPone.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Inspired

• We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Country
  • Mom
  • Rock

• Usually after I'm done with working, I just come home and play a little game and go to bed. After work, I have a lot time to do a lot of stuff. I think I've got a good balance of work and play.

  

  Benjamin Stockham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• When I wrestled Randy Orton, that was probably the biggest match of my career at that point, because that was when I had the other shot at the WWE championship.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Career

• I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Control
  • Focus

• Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• I definitely think of myself as a musician first.

  

  Lucia Micarelli

• History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

  

  Preet Bharara
  • History
  • Culture
  • Leadership

• A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

  

  Lyman Abbott

• I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Work
  • School
  • Single

• I really didn't feel that my motion picture career was going the way I wanted it to go.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Career
  • Picture

• I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.

  

  Pierre Coffin
  • Country
  • Minion

• I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

  

  David Coverdale Whitesnake
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Done
  • Help

• I love the rhythm of tap dancing. It's sharp and quick. Plus, the sound is very appealing.

  

  Aubrey Peeples

• Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Technology

• How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

  

  William Davenant
  • Pleasure
  • Liberty
  • Poet

• When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

  

  Lois McMaster