Sarah Weinman Quotes

'A Spy in the House', the first of Y. S. Lee's 'The Agency' novels, is pure confection, an historical romp through England at the height of The Great Stink that imagines a secret spy ring for women tucked away where few notice but powerful factions clamor for their services.

Sarah Weinman

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WomenGreatPowerfulHouseRing

God bless the U.S. court system.

Jimmy John Liautaud

GodSystemBlessCourtGod Bless

I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

Joely Richardson

LoveDaughterTimeStartThinking

There were numerous times where, at the end of a week of working on a song, there was a part of it that we still weren't feeling, so we'd scrap the whole thing and start from scratch the next week.

Johnny Christ

SongStartEndWeekFeelingNext

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

Steve Harvey

FatherMotherTeacherTogetherMe

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

Tom Landry

SimplicityThinkBetterPlayPlayers

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

Mo Rocca

LeadershipCharacterSportsTeamwork

We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.

Louis Navellier

TogetherPerformanceBetterYouFind

It was great about the sizes of the audiences we were getting in America, but sometimes you feel like telling some of the men that you're not on stage to have your body looked at.

Dolores O'Riordan

GreatMenFeelAmericaYouBody

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

Demetri Martin

FunnyFunPeopleStand UpThinkGo

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

Brian Kernighan

ReputationThinkLearnWayDifficult

There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. Actually, it's probably easier. And these days, there are a lot more women out there than there used to be. It's not like when I was young. I was always the only girl on the range.

Paula Creamer

WomenGirlDinnerGolfLearnParty

I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it.

Sebastian Lelio

StrengthNeverSeenBeenReligious

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