Elinor Lipman Quotes

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

Elinor Lipman

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• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Travel
  • Exercise
  • Shoes

• My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Resilience

• I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Up
  • Country
  • Community

• I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Purpose

• The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Battle
  • Goddess

• Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Know
  • Player
  • Fans

• While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Future

• Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Good
  • Past
  • Relationship

• Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • More
  • Where
  • Egypt

• When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Home
  • Play
  • Never

• The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Time
  • Why
  • America

• The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Laughing

• I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

  

  Karen Kain
  • World
  • Story
  • Ballet

• You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

  

  Randy Travis
  • You
  • Artist
  • Project

• I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • Simple
  • Crazy

• I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Rest

• If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Me
  • Weird

• I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

  

  Elinor Lipman
  • Golf
  • Driving