Caitlin Moran Quotes

I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.

Caitlin Moran

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AgeFoodRememberMouthBackGarden

When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.

Joe Meno

TimeParentsCollegeGrowing UpYou

I like really uberfeminine, classic-looking things mixed with something rougher around the edges. I've been looking at Rihanna a lot, checking her out. She's got something going on that I am sort of craving a little bit.

Jessica Biel

I AmLookingSheOutLittleGoing

Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

John Cornyn

WorldBlessingsCountryLibertySaid

I got a chance to work with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh and Juvenile and all these people as I was growing up, and so that really influenced everything I do.

Trombone Shorty

WorkPeopleGrowing UpChanceFresh

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

Tony Levin

SuccessPeopleOthersDecideMeans

There's so many ways of making product design easier, more efficient, quicker. People are now taking DNA from cows and growing leather. The implications of that, in what it has from a grain standpoint, are enormous.

Tory Burch

PeopleDesignGrowingNowDNAMore

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

Tony DiTerlizzi

TechnologyMindSurviveEvolution

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

Michelle Huneven

LifeWorkBeautifulSomeoneRealUs

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

Dorothy Allison

TruthBeautifulBetterYouYoung

Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.

Christoph Waltz

TodayTomorrowSparkleYouSpecial

I'm from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had things like 'South Pacific' and opera on.

Colm Wilkinson

FamilyMusicGrowing UpSmallHouse

I hate when people say, 'Well, this is unfair for the underdog.' Well, the underdog should try harder.

Coco Rocha

HatePeopleUnderdogSayUnfairTry

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