Florence King Quotes

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

Florence King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 5, 1936 - January 6, 2016

Topics

SchoolPeopleStartShowing UpOut

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

Jim Sullivan

EarlyDaysStonesPlayedLotDemos

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Joel Osteen

WorkHomeDaySpeakNextSomething

If you set the attractiveness bar really low, people have to compliment you on your looks when they meet you in person. I'm pretty much a genius. I'm actually applying to work at the Genius Bar based on this trick.

Megan Amram

WorkPeopleGeniusYouPersonMeet

You always have some trans girl saying, 'Oh, they were just being funny! They aren't really transphobic,' Just like you will always have some black folks defending some white person for using the 'N' word because they are 'cool.'

Angelica Ross

FunnyGirlCoolSayingBlackYou

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

Sondre Lerche

MusicPeopleWorldYouKnowOver

This is the deal: You win the Royal Rumble match, you go to main event WrestleMania. That's the process.

Roman Reigns

WinProcessYouGoRoyalEvent

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.

Ruben Blades

New YorkThinkEndMiamiNewNow

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

Rudy Rucker

HardEveryoneGetFactPublished

I have always been a fan of Salvador Dali, but Amrita Sher-Gil, who was an Indian-Hungarian painter, is another favourite. She was painting Indian women, and, growing up here, I'd never seen anyone paint Indian women, so that was really incredible to see a painting of someone who looks like you. I think that has a lot of impact on you.

Rupi Kaur

WomenPaintingGrowing UpThinkYou

It's good for me to pull away from something that is just done for effect, which was basically Sue White in 'Green Wing.' In that, it was very much: if in trouble, gurn, or fall down. There was no character background to Sue. You didn't know who she was. She didn't have any toehold in any kind of reality.

Michelle Gomez

GoodCharacterMeGreenRealityYou

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

Jonah Lomu

TrainingMeDoctorEndHardDarkest

I love my husband's fried chicken, but I took it to the next level by swiping it with Cholula honey butter - I'm a total hot-sauce freak.

Chrissy Teigen

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