Margaret Oliphant Quotes

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Margaret Oliphant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: April 4, 1828 - June 25, 1897

Topics

HomeMeYouLookPicturesTrouble

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

Jessica Lange

FutureThinkNeverNextImagine

If a guy works, and he has children, it's good, and he doesn't feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there's that pull: 'Oh, I should be home,' when she's at work, and 'Oh, I should be at work,' when she's at home.

Melanie Mayron

WorkGoodHomeChildrenWomanGuilt

We expected to have a good time with Clive Anderson 'cause I've always liked him, his shows.

Maurice Gibb

GoodTimeHimAlwaysGood TimeHis

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

Jean-Michel Jarre

MusicAmbitionInnocenceEarlyKinds

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

Michael Baumgartner

HistoryWarAmericanYouLostWord

All you need to do is to get clients in the hotel door; then they hand you their wallets for five days.

John Pritzker

DoorHotelYouClientsHandNeed

The way a character looks reflects what's on the inside. I can make myself look really bad, and I can make myself look kind of gorgeous. It's not about me; it's about the character.

Toni Collette

CharacterMyselfMeLookBadI Can

I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.

Tom Cotton

TruthPeopleYearYouElectionTell

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

Roger Moore

ActingRightTwoAlwaysSomething

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft

JusticeWorldCharityWanting

I'm just going to keep working hard on and off the training field.

Dele Alli

TrainingWorking HardHardGoingOff

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

Ariel Gore

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