Anne McCaffrey Quotes

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

Anne McCaffrey

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• That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Problem
  • Head
  • Bald

• My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Game
  • Trouble
  • Iron

• Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Time
  • Deep

• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
  • Know
  • Literature
  • More

• I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Place
  • Biology

• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • War
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Fame

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Test

• I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Work
  • History
  • Free

• Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • True
  • Man
  • Black

• Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Play
  • Anything
  • Complete

• Who is the third who walks always beside you When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Up
  • Together
  • Road

• The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Country

• Things are not always as old songs tell them to be-especially when it is concerning dragons.

  

  Tad Williams

• If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Rock

• 'Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.'

  

  James Madison
  • Mind
  • Religious

• A friend to all, is not a friend to anyone

  

  Mike Skinner
  • Friend
  • Anyone

• If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.

  

  Emile Coue
  • World
  • May
  • Attitude

• You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

  

  Mike Schmidt
  • Trying
  • Bother
  • Strikes

• Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Up
  • Long
  • Trying

• I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

  

  Anne McCaffrey