Loretta Young Quotes

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

Loretta Young

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Different
  • Think
  • Chance

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Children
  • Society
  • Idea

• I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Work
  • Win

• I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Man
  • Stop

• I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Like
  • I Think

• There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

  

  Beck
  • Song
  • Know
  • Puzzle

• I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Father

• Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Nature

• Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Me
  • Air
  • Boy

• There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Stop

• Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Rich
  • Security
  • More

• Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Never
  • Finish

• Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Think
  • You
  • Change

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational is rational,Until flicked by feeling, in a gildered street, I call you by name, my green, my fluent mundo.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Feeling
  • Green
  • Twilight

• I've turned into a technological wizard. I can send emails now, which for me is unbelievable. They don't make any sense, but I can send them. I call it e-mithering.

  

  Mark Lawrenson

• Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.

  

  Alan Stern
  • History

• Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Faith

• Now I have other demands on my time that are not flexible, I just can't wander into the studio at 2 A.M. like I used to. If I have an idea in the middle of the night, I will go and get the bare bones down, but mostly you can learn to tame it to your needs.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Time
  • Night

• I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

  

  Loretta Young
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Struggle