Marge Piercy Quotes

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

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• The simple things in life make me very happy.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Simple

• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Need
  • Sympathy

• In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Forever

• If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Cool

• People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Different

• The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

  

  Eric Close
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• It's very difficult to put your finger on why a certain actor or actress will capture your attention, and you'll think they're right for a role. There's an essence to a person.

  

  James Gray
  • Why
  • Attention

• I don't go for the flash and panache.

  

  Paul Walker

• I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

  

  Jim Crace

• I am a movie star.

  

  Jayne Mansfield
  • Movie
  • Star

• In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • School
  • Done
  • Book

• We live in an age dominated by the problem of limits. We are witnessing the end of progress. We have reached the saturation point. Are we going beyond these limits? Are we going to take the risk? There is much work to do to maintain the planet.

  

  Pierre Schaeffer
  • Work
  • Live
  • Age

• Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Nature

• And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • People
  • Respect

• The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Way
  • Blood
  • Self-Conscious

• Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Up
  • To Be
  • Loneliness

• Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Nadine Dorries

• It looks like our defense is quite a bit better than it has been in the last two years, ... If we can keep it up and stay at least in the middle of the league, that would be significant. We haven't ordered any championship rings yet; two games doesn't make a season. I love the Colorado air. I love the game, the competition, the show.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Championship
  • Rings
  • Ordered

• Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Experience

• Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Actor

• In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.

  

  Dan Hill
  • World
  • Music
  • Book

• Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Musician
  • Heroin
  • Womb

• My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Twins
  • Womb