Cybill Shepherd Quotes

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

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• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looking

• No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Me
  • Better
  • Horse

• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hope

• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Change

• The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Kids
  • Movie

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Good
  • Man
  • Woman

• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  

  Iman
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Find

• Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Women
  • Inspired
  • Hero

• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Enough
  • Possible

• In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Different
  • May
  • Government

• All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Back
  • Congress

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Party
  • Trump

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• 'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • People
  • Up
  • Emotional

• Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Lake

• There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Chance
  • Smart

• The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • People
  • Success
  • Achieve

• I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

  

  Cybill Shepherd
  • True
  • Success