Lynne Truss Quotes

Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.

Lynne Truss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 31, 1955

Topics

WorkLiveQualityPersonalityFall

Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.

Jesse Helms

BetterDownOutWatchHereHe

After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it. I like me better now than when I was young and skinny. I don't understand this extreme fashion for being anorexic-skinny. We forgot about women with curves - real women. We're not embracing that anymore.

Anna Netrebko

WomenMeBabyFashionBetterCurves

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Sonia Sotomayor

SocietyActionSomeoneYouWithout

If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.

Robin Wright

BusinessPeopleYouFollowHead

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

Miguel

PowerSimpleI CanWriteSongs

We've got to get people out of their cars, out of those drive-thru windows, get them walking, get them in parks and get them more active.

Mick Cornett

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A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

Jools Holland

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If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic.

Diana Rigg

YourselfYouSeriousOldGetAbout

People who are scared don't live life.

ASAP Ferg

LifeLiveLive LifePeopleScared

Of course I've done stupid things in my career, and I do always seem to be in the paper, but I hate seeing myself.

Ashley Cole

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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Alice Walker

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

LifePowerAloneThreeSelf-Control

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