Lists Quotes · Page 15

“The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.”

— Umberto Eco

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to…

— Louisa May Alcott

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me…

— Mira Nair

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

— Eleanor Clift

In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list.

— Chris Christie

I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.

— Luis von Ahn

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

— Franny Billingsley

If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore.

— Mackenzie Phillips

Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being…

— Hillary Clinton

Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had. Warren Lasher Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano Charles Deats or Keats Alfonse Tuck it…

— Lorrie Moore

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

— David Brooks

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't.…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and…

— Ogden Nash

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of…

— Jane Horrocks

I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read…

— Jodi Picoult

Ask yourself, "Why do I want to be in shape?" and write all ... Put your list everywhere to constantly remind yourself…

— Jillian Michaels

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized…

— Alvin Toffler

John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I…

— Kristin Armstrong

You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding,…

— Isla Fisher

Do you ever go off with a long grocery list and come home from the store with a bunch of different stuff?…

— Robert Fulghum

He gave her a sly, sideways look. "Did you bring it?" "My list? Heavens, no. What can you be thinking?" His smile…

— Julia Quinn

I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing…

— David Letterman

This week my son thinks he's the Supremes.All of them. So we can scratch "straight"off the list. At least I hope we…

— Steve Kluger

“To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.”

— Rebecca Solnit

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to…

— Aristotle

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

— Trevor Dunn

“The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number…

— Douglas Adams

Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

— David Neeleman

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority…

— Arabella Weir

Congratulations you're 18!... On a list of 20 people I'm going to kill.

— Frankie Boyle

You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in…

— Chris Waddle

You look at most of these 'best chef' lists, and there are about nine male chefs and one woman chef. The problem…

— Dominique Crenn

Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs.

— J. R. Ackerley

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

— Dorothy Parker

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing

— John Turturro

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

— Dermot Mulroney

I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

— Martin Parr

I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

— Laura Linney

I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see…

— Linda Pastan