Lists Quotes

• All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Amazing
  • Lists
  • Link

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• I love making lists.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Love
  • Making
  • Lists

• A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People
  • Family
  • Small

• I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

  

  Jack Chick
  • Taken
  • Picture
  • Hit

• [Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Work
  • Real
  • Small

• Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Desire

• If (pitch counts) were a panacea to our problems, I'd be all for it. But disabled lists are loaded with pitchers. There's hardly a pitcher living anymore that hasn't had surgery.

  

  Dallas Michael John Albert Green Alexisonfire
  • Living
  • Anymore
  • Hardly

• I'm obsessed with making lists.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Making
  • Obsessed
  • Lists

• I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

  

  William Gibson
  • Writing
  • Shopping
  • Novel

• Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Nature
  • Sky
  • Teaching

• Thus if you are not among the favored guests at the table where officials make detailed lists of who is to receive what at whose expense, you are on the menu.

  

  Angelo Codevilla
  • Guests
  • Expense
  • Officials

• Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Important
  • Firsts

• I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Done
  • Jobs
  • Television

• Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Cancer
  • Guts
  • Thirds

• At the top of this list has to be "get in that ass". It's the ultimate Leonism to get you through life.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • Ultimate
  • Ass

• That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Mom

• [As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Children
  • November
  • October

• I go to bed every night and the list of what I've accomplished is astounding.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Night
  • Bed
  • Lists

• One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognizing their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirect.

  

  F. F. Bruce Quotes
  • She
  • Book
  • Church

• If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Giving
  • Nice
  • Needs

• Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).

  

  Serge Schmemann
  • Evil
  • Humiliated
  • Insulted

• Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Characteristics
  • Lists

• It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Up
  • High
  • Pretty

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