Molly Ivins Quotes

In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is 'bureaucacy'; fiscal comes out 'physical,' and one moves not to suspend the rules, but to 'suppend.'

Molly Ivins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GovernmentAttentionRulesOutMost

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

Jim Caviezel

DeathHimYourChristCrossSins

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Joey Santiago

MusicLongYouKnowWantListen

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.'

Stephen Merchant

FunnyHeroSmartMeChanceThink

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Ron Lewis

EducationFutureQualityImportant

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Russell Baker

CarEfficiencyDownSayNeedMost

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

Michel Gondry

GreatJobPeoplePerformanceHelp

To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at home when I was growing up that I always felt I knew him well.

Michael Korda

LifeHomeGrowing UpMy LifeGrowing

Most people's journeys haven't been as disjointed as mine.

Delta Goodrem

PeopleMineBeenMostJourneys

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Bruce Schneier

PeopleBelieveComputersUnderstand

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

Rick Moranis

ThinkShortWorryUnfairAudience

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Richard Russo

WorkFunnyComedyYouJokeToo

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Lenny Kravitz

TechnologyRelationshipDayFaceOur

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Molly Ivins