Ayelet Waldman Quotes
I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale - never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).
Ayelet Waldman
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
Jack Youngblood
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
Samantha Shannon
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
Sally Phillips
I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
Dan Quisenberry
Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
Indra Devi
In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.
Jacky Ickx
Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
Queen Rania of Jordan
Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
Vikas Swarup
You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone's wearing guns, so it looks like it's going to be, by default, partially considered a western.
Taylor Sheridan
Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
Warren Farrell
I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
Haley Bennett
My nickname is 'Chief' because my father was a chief in Nigeria.
Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
'What would transparency be if we could delete anything we felt was embarrassing in some way? You know we don't delete.'
Dave Eggers
All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
Tamara Tunie
We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.
David Horsey
Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty.
Mother Teresa
I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale - never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).
Ayelet Waldman