Loretta Young Quotes

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

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• As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • True
  • Celebrity

• We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Changes

• My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Myself
  • Open
  • Mail

• It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Good
  • Career
  • Funny

• I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Human
  • Studying
  • Boundless

• 'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Female

• I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Car
  • Car Accident

• On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Two
  • Test

• I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Week

• Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Great
  • Better
  • Nothing

• I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Like
  • Make

• I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • TV

• I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Live
  • You
  • Play

• My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Fun
  • Parents

• It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Live
  • Age

• The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, The body, it touches. The captain and his menAre one and the sailor and the sea are one.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Character
  • Sea

• I showered the slang, simple as ABC's / Skip over the D's and rock the microphone with ease (E's).

  

  Eminem
  • Simple
  • Rock

• My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on how to hold my body. Although I do recall desperately wishing I was shorter at school.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • School
  • Parents
  • Ballet

• The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

  

  George Herbert Mead
  • Quality

• Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Fame
  • Causes
  • Fortune

• No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Me
  • Will
  • Consumers

• Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work on a single paragraph for hours. And there's no better feeling than when your writing is going well.

  

  Debra Hamel
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Research

• A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

  

  Loretta Young