Colleen McCullough Quotes

The best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend.

Colleen McCullough

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• Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Want
  • Interesting

• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • School
  • Thing
  • Athletics

• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Know
  • Film
  • Nostalgia

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Good
  • Work
  • Strong

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Army

• Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Way
  • Africa
  • Middle East

• I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Child
  • Wanted
  • Surgeon

• But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Today
  • Media

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Up
  • Lucky
  • Just

• We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.

  

  John Mackey
  • People
  • Giving
  • Growing

• Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Great
  • Party
  • Learning

• My mother didn't let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I saw Basil Rathbone, I was completely taken. To me, that was the epitome of great acting, was Basil Rathbone - not only in Sherlock Holmes, but the Sheriff of Nottingham, and all the terrible characters he had to play alongside Errol Flynn.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Time
  • Great
  • Mother

• When I was 8 years old, I asked my parents to get me head shots, and they were like, 'What are you talking about? Go outside and play!' I'm so glad they did.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Parents

• Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

  

  James Hillman
  • Different
  • American
  • Education

• The best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Great
  • Pain
  • Legend