Dinah Shore Quotes

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Dinah Shore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 29, 1916 - February 24, 1994

Topics

FatherThinkSaturdayFarmersLeave

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

Meg Whitman

PeopleBrandNameYourRemarkable

I am a stepmother to the fullest extent.

Megan Fox

I AmFullestStepmotherAmExtent

Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

Robert Kiyosaki

TimeSchoolMindHigh SchoolBiology

I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.

Andy Kindler

LifeTimePhoneProductDifferent

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

Stanley Schmidt

ChangeAheadHardRealTechnological

Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish.

Rob Lowe

GreatWaterMenThinkFishKnow

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

Monica Raymund

SurvivalLyingCopingDefenseOnly

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.

Michael McCaul

PastYearCongressHumanOverAbuse

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

Miriam Makeba

FightingBecomeNeedResourcesUs

I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.

Jason Kilar

EducationMoneySchoolValueCollege

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

David Wenham

CharacterJourneyManKingStart

Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.

Anne Reid

LifeLoveThoughtBetterBirthUp

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