Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
-
You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
-
The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
-
I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
-
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
-
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
-
I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
-
Working gets in the way of living.
-
With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
-
There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
-
If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
-
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
-
On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
-
Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
-
When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.
-
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
-
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
-
There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
-
Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.
-
I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.
-
My biggest tip is this... treat bread like chocolate. You wouldn't have a chocolate bar in the morning and then a double chocolate bar at lunch and then some chocolate before dinner. I was essentially eating a loaf of bread a day. And that doesn't work for me.
-
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
-
You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.
-
Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.
