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Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Phyllis McGinley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 21, 1905 - February 22, 1978

Topics

Alone Mirror Hair Fly Trying Down

You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.

Mel Tillis

Music Yourself I Am People Song You

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

Andy Warhol

Money People Construction Building

I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

John Waters

Time New York Parents People Fake

I love food, but if I find a restaurant I like in a new city, I can eat every meal there, and sometimes I do... and even sometimes the same dish.

Stephen Hough

Love Food City Restaurant Find New

If you really accept that global warming puts the world at risk, then you think you would be open to any solution that could undo it.

Steven Levitt

World Think Solution You Accept

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

Rupert Sheldrake

Home Opinion Nobody Now Unknown

Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed.

Monica Johnson

Parents Teachers Up Students Show

Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.

Mindy Kaling

Work Birthday Children Happy Believe

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Joseph P. Bradley

Together Law Society Bond Without

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

David Simon

You Fellowship Won Very Personally

You can't move mountains by whispering at them.

Pink

Mountains You Move Them Whispering

There's no one way to grieve, and there's no one path.

Sheryl Sandberg

Path Way One Way Grieve