Isabel Gillies Quotes

When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.

Isabel Gillies

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LoveHeartBrokenWorldBookHelp

I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.

Andrea Hirata

FoodSimpleWritingEatingFastOwn

Every part of me is a surfer. I love surfing, and I love the waves that I surf. So that's the thing that I get excited about most: What kind of waves am I going to be able to surf? Am I going to be surfing alone, or will we be surfing waves that no one's surfed before? Second to that is photography.

John John Florence

LoveAloneMeWavesPhotographyGet

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

Jeffrey Eugenides

DayWritingStartEvery DayEarly

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

Roger Milla

ChildrenFootballBornCountry

I had dreams about working for a big foreign company.

Roustam Tariko

DreamsCompanyBigWorkingForeign

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

Mike Quigley

BestPoliticsSunlightOldBeliever

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

Mike Singletary

VisionGreatResponsibilityPeople

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Jean Anouilh

FunLongPoorAnythingWouldExcess

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

IntelligenceNobodyMoreIrritating

The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I'd have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away.

Lupita Nyong'o

BeautyCommunityTimeWomanCityMe

I feel I represent my country: not only my country but all former U.S.S.R. countries because I have very big fan base here, and I have more than a billion Muslim fans. I feel I represent these guys all around the world. My fans. This gives me very good energy. When I go to the cage, I think about these people.

Khabib Nurmagomedov

GoodPeopleMeWorldEnergyThink

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

CharacterHeartGratefulSmallWhich

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