Gail Collins Quotes

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

Gail Collins

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WomenFreedomHistoryStruggleMen

The written word is everything.

John Drinkwater

EverythingWordWrittenWritten Word

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

Robert James Graves

SoundHimHearingTrumpetSenseEar

We as a society need to become healthier.

Matthew Heineman

SocietyBecomeNeedHealthier

There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.

Ruth Ozeki

GodPrayerWordsWritingWorldYou

My auntie Anne took me to 'Phantom of the Opera' in London. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

Lisa O'Hare

BeautifulMeThoughtLondonOpera

When I dine with CEOs at Michael's in New York or Spago in L.A., we score the best tables. On my own, I wind up seated near the kitchen doors.

Christina Binkley

BestNew YorkWindKitchenDoorsUp

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.

Clive Owen

PeopleMeNeverAlwaysSeenBecause

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

William Reddington Hewlett

BusinessBeliefsJudgmentsProceeds

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

Shannen Doherty

LifeExperienceNew ThingsEyeDrunk

I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don't want to sacrifice anybody else's privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don't love them. I think I've been a really good dad; at least, I try to be.

Scott Turow

LifeFamilyLoveGoodChildrenFree

I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

Tim O'Reilly

LoveTimeLearnMomentsOperaSing

People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.

Kygo

GoodPeopleFindListenJustSongs

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