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Me Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides,…
- I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out…
- Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If…
- Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently…
- My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite…
- I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out…
- I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female…
- If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes.…
- And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely…
- I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible…
- New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of…
- The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into…
- Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
- A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six…
- Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.
- [After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I…
- I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale