Judith Martin Quotes

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

Judith Martin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1938

Topics

AttentionYouMoreRealGiveGlance

You don't realize how much a dog's presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.

Meghan Daum

DogHomeWallsYouRealizePresence

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

Robert Richardson

GoodBetterPictureGood-LookingFar

With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel.

Robert Gottlieb

HouseComplicatedGreatestBeenPlot

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

Angie Stone

YouFeelingOthersOrderAccepted

When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.

Angie Thomas

MyselfSchoolCollegeBlackWhite

My mother dropped us off at a foster care centre when I was just two. But my grandmother ended up fighting for us and winning custody of us. We didn't have much, but she gave us character.

Tori Bowie

MotherCharacterWinningFightingUp

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

Moby

MotherFoodMoneyTomorrowYouKnow

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

Anthony Geary

LivePeopleMeSpeakThinkLanguage

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

Anne Lamott

WaterSweetLovedChurchWindows

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

Atul Gawande

MedicineThinkBecomeMoreHandle

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

Phil McGraw

New Year'sYearYouNowMoreRight

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

Peter Gallagher

LifeFamilySupportMeTheatreWere

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