Emma Thompson Quotes

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

Emma Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 15, 1959

Topics

ValueResultLeaveDaughtersFathers

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

Jill Dando

PastHolidayYearsDeterminedMove

Wedding rings need to be sparkly to remind us not to have sex with other people.

Andrea Savage

PeopleWeddingSexNeedRingsUs

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

Michael J. Fox

LifeGoodThinkBadGood And Bad

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.

Spalding Gray

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The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

Steven Van Zandt

LiveRock And RollLearnYouRock

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

Michael Mandelbaum

ChangeChange The WorldNew YorkNew

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

LifeManYourselfAgingOld ManYou

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

Christopher Lasch

HeartImprovementProductRelentless

If I was to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing.

Bobby Hull

ChangeOverAgainThing

There should be no rules at your dinner party except for people to eat a lot and enjoy a long night where they feel like they could fall asleep at the dinner table at the end.

Antoni Porowski

PeopleDinnerNightEndEnjoyRules

Faith is a passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth

FaithPassionateIntuition

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

Peter Davison

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