Angela Lansbury Quotes

I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.

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• Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Baby
  • Now

• Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork

• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Young
  • Ready
  • Benefits

• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • College
  • Passion
  • Risk

• I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Country
  • High
  • You

• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • House
  • Working
  • Office

• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Job
  • Best
  • Fight

• I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Focus
  • Same
  • Author

• Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Thinking
  • Confused
  • Fan

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Always
  • Find

• I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

  

  Raf Simons
  • She
  • Way
  • Fashion

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Me
  • Said
  • Yes

• The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Reading
  • Unique

• Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Up
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.

  

  Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Long
  • Song

• My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else.

  

  George Clooney
  • Long
  • Father
  • Problem

• Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Human
  • Problems
  • Drug

• I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.

  

  Angela Lansbury
  • Long