Cynthia Ozick Quotes

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

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• Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Car

• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Good
  • Women
  • Comedies

• When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Should
  • Something
  • Talk

• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Pigs

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Christian
  • Difficult
  • Islamic

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• All I ever wanted to do is make music.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Music
  • Wanted
  • Ever

• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Kind
  • Enjoy
  • Suits

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Write
  • Sing
  • Hum

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• Coffee makes me go crazy.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Coffee

• When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Life
  • School
  • My Life

• Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.

  

  James Altucher

• One of the remarkable characteristics of young wild sunflowers, in addition to growing in soil that is not hospitable, is how the young flower bud follows the sun across the sky. In doing so, it receives life-sustaining energy before bursting forth in its glorious yellow color.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Growing

• Throughout the Great Recession of 2008, the average 401(k) balance lost anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of value. Nobody was more harmed than baby boomers or recent retirees, who, unlike younger workers, didn't have the time for the market to rebound or were no longer contributing and therefore unable to invest when stocks were cheap.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Lost

• I like to be confident, absolutely not cocky, and I like to have that healthy fear of my opponents. It keeps me on my toes.

  

  Cat Zingano
  • Healthy
  • Opponents
  • Cocky

• People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Want
  • Changed

• In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Life
  • Work