Molly Ivins Quotes

People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact.

Molly Ivins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 30, 1944 - January 31, 2007

Topics

PeopleTexasStatisticsKnowNice

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

Jerry Lewis

FoolPeopleLaughYouTableHim

We've always been quite clear about how we want the songs to sound. If we can imagine the song being played at a party, and it gets people tapping their feet, then it's in.

Angus Young

PeopleSongFeetPartyWantSound

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

Michael C. Burgess

FamilyFriendHomeExperiencePast

We're at economic war with China. It's in all their literature. They're not shy about saying what they're doing.

Steve Bannon

WarSayingLiteratureDoingShy

I think people know by now that I do my own writing.

Mick Foley

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Lord Byron

FutureBestPastProphet

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

David Tang

YouReadCyberspaceHearsayCent

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

Claire Danes

I AmFeelMoreCapableLimitations

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Claude Shannon

UncertaintyResolutionInformation

The piano is where everything starts and ends. Everything is based off of it. If you understand that, you wind up understanding a lot more in all other instruments. For me, it had always been something important to try and learn.

Brian Fallon

MeWindLearnUnderstandingYouTry

It's nearly impossible to make a living in the arts.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

ImpossibleLivingArtsMakeNearly

In China, people are moving from bigger cars to small hatches, and interestingly, the Indian market is graduating to bigger cars and sedans. I will say that we will not put money only in just one segment.

Winfried Vahland

MoneyPeopleMovingSmallSayWill

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