Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

Rita Mae Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 28, 1944

Topics

CatsBelieveNobodyTopDogsLike

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

John Adams

GovernmentControlFreeEssence

Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the actor or someone. But the 'comic genius' actors are the darkest people on the planet - and that kind of scares me!

John Hillcoat

PeopleMeThinkGeniusComedyYou

If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

Stephen Dillane

YourselfFeelUncomfortableYou

I don't go around lecturing people and telling them they shouldn't eat meat. I just don't think that's terribly effective. I just try to tell people how I have personally benefitted from the vegan lifestyle.

Steve-O

PeopleThinkGoLifestyleTryMeat

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

Steven Moffat

SayAnythingWellJustLike

I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - if you believe that these things work, you will feel better.

Simon Cowell

WorkBelieveBetterFeelWeekYou

It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.

Michael Otto

DecisionManagementLawyerThink

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

Lisa Marie Presley

LifeMusicI AmPeopleMy LifeDark

We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

Jonathan Sacks

FamilyPastQueenSocietyBetter

The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

Douglas Brinkley

MomentTravelHorseLeftStarted

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

CollegeMeKnowEgyptAfricaMatter

I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.

Chip Conley

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