Elizabeth Berg Quotes

I just cannot stand an unmade bed.

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• Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Family
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Never
  • Penny
  • Tuition

• I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Man
  • Never
  • Religion

• I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • House
  • Myself
  • Mirror

• Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dream

• Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Life
  • Money
  • Business

• The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Never
  • Odd
  • Island

• Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Decision
  • Goal
  • Discussion

• There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Lucky

• Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you know, looking at their teeth or measuring their heads, which they like also, because it's kind of fun.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Kids
  • Growth
  • Development

• I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Value
  • Negative
  • Politicians

• Leave the atom alone.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Science
  • Alone
  • Leave

• They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt; And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Doubt
  • Fly

• One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Long
  • Fear
  • Spiritual

• These voices blame the Middle East's only democracy for the region's extremism. They offer the false promise that abandoning a stalwart ally is somehow the path to strength. It is not, it never has been, and it never will be.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Democracy
  • Path
  • Promise

• All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

  

  Karen Blixen

• I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Songs
  • Great Gatsby
  • Jazz Album

• Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.

  

  Mildred Dresselhaus
  • Training
  • Interests
  • Options

• While some members of Congress have attempted to stall progress on climate change, their actions amount to little more than political theater. We will not abandon our responsibility to our children and grandchildren, nor will we cede global leadership on the defining issue of our time.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Time
  • Children
  • Political

• Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

  

  Lili Taylor
  • Work
  • Trying

• I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Words

• I just cannot stand an unmade bed.

  

  Elizabeth Berg