Maeve Binchy Quotes

My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

Maeve Binchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 28, 1939 - June 30, 2012

Topics

MotherFightMeFaceMaskShe

I think President Trump is trying to distract the country away from the failures he's had - the inability to get a health care bill that both sides could come together on.

John Hickenlooper

HealthTogetherThinkCareTrying

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

John Sexton

MyselfExperiencePhotographyTrying

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

Stijn Streuvels

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There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

Ron White

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It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

Jason Schwartzman

FunnyPeopleEyeThinkYouDead

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

Jonathan Kozol

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I'm a big hip hop fan.

Jonah Hill

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I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.

Dita Von Teese

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I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science.

Christina Tosi

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Elie Wiesel and his book 'Night' have changed my life, shifting the way I see and treat people and inspiring me to fight injustices any way I am able.

Clemantine Wamariya

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You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspirin so I'm not going to have a heart attack.' It's really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can't keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.

Corbin Bernsen

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I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.

Brooke Shields

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