Top 100 Lancaster Quotes
#1. I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.
Nancy Lancaster
#2. In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.
Jen Lancaster
#3. This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period.
Jen Lancaster
#4. If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
John Lancaster Spalding
#5. I really do believe that being naturally beautiful is what is inside and what shines through.
Penny Lancaster
#7. There's a saying about ranch women. When they're 30, they look 50. When they're 80, they look 50.
Craig Lancaster
#8. Except for thinking up reasons I'm allowed to skip the gym, my schedule is almost totally empty. (Today's reason is because I have a cold. Yesterday's was the dogs seemed sad.
Jen Lancaster
#9. Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
John Lancaster Spalding
#10. Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
John Lancaster Spalding
#11. I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Burt Lancaster
#12. In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.
Nancy Lancaster
#13. For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.
Jen Lancaster
#15. We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,
Burt Lancaster
#16. I like Oprah. I could sit around and make vision boards all day, but I wouldn't actually get anything done if I were to concentrate on my feelings rather than doing.
Jen Lancaster
#17. The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.
John Lancaster Spalding
#18. I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.
Jen Lancaster
#19. I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
Jen Lancaster
#20. The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.
Jen Lancaster
#22. I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out in New Year's Eve.
Jen Lancaster
#23. We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
John Lancaster Spalding
#24. Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
John Lancaster Spalding
#25. Superstition requires no tests, no measurements, no proof: just faith.
Mike A. Lancaster
#26. I think people tend to be very myopic and they don't understand how their actions impact others.
Jen Lancaster
#27. Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.
Jen Lancaster
#28. You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.
Jen Lancaster
#29. His excitement was adorable. I couldn't resist. I leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. -Hazel Grace Lancaster, The Fault In Our Stars
John Green
#30. What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.
John Lancaster Spalding
#31. I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.
Craig Lancaster
#32. Hell hath no fury like a middle-aged woman in a fuzzy pink robe, hopped up on a winning combination of allergy medicine, Alias reruns, and anger.
Jen Lancaster
#33. How was it even possible to know if your brain was malfunctioning, because the very thing you need to think it all through is the very thing that might be playing up in the first place
Mike A. Lancaster
#34. Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
John Lancaster Spalding
#35. I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
Burt Lancaster
#36. FALCKNER, DANIEL. Curieuse Nachricht from Pennsylvania. Translation by Julius F. Sachse. Lancaster, Pa.: 1905. Series of 103 questions and answers, on all aspects of Pennsylvania Conditions. Written at close of the seventeenth century. Several editions printed in Germany.
Anonymous
#37. Seduction is the art of saying what you don't do in order to do what you don't say
Lois Lancaster
#38. Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don't like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.
Jen Lancaster
#39. Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
John Lancaster Spalding
#40. There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
John Lancaster Spalding
#41. Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.
Osbert Lancaster
#42. I hope you do exist. Even though hope is as intangible as belief, I am not hostile to it.
Craig Lancaster
#44. -so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.
John Green
#45. It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
John Lancaster Spalding
#46. There's a great quote in Gus's house, one that both he and I found very comforting: Without pain, we couldn't know joy. - Hazel Grace Lancaster
John Green
#47. To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.
John Lancaster Spalding
#48. I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.
Jen Lancaster
#49. A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
John Lancaster Spalding
#50. Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.
Jen Lancaster
#52. May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster
#53. Now with social media, people essentially come into my living room, my virtual living room, and tell me everything that is wrong with me.
Jen Lancaster
#54. I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.
Jen Lancaster
#55. Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.
Nancy Lancaster
#56. You know how it's almost impossible for kids to not say what they think? That's me. I have to make the conscious effort to be situationally appropriate.
Jen Lancaster
#57. A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
Joseph Lancaster
#58. He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.
Jim Butcher
#61. No one wants to friend or follow covert info about Pakistan's nuclear policy.
Jen Lancaster
#63. I am nervous about this game. The Cowboys' best player, quarterback Tony Romo, is not going to play because he has a broken finger. The Cowboys ought to be able to win without Tony Romo because the St. Louis Rams are terrible, but I am still nervous.
Craig Lancaster
#64. Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.
Jen Lancaster
#65. I'm lucky that I have a supportive partner who loves me when I'm bigger as well as slim.
Penny Lancaster
#66. You're always such a disappointment, Augustus. Couldn't you have at least gotten orange tomatoes?
Hazel Grace Lancaster
#67. I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career
every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.
Jen Lancaster
#68. I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.
Penny Lancaster
#69. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster
John Green
#70. He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg.
"I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish," he answered, still kissing me. I laughed.
"I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.
John Green
#71. Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
Joseph Lancaster
#72. If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
John Lancaster Spalding
#73. Jack Bauer is fooling his audience, but he's not fooling me.
Craig Lancaster
#74. IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
Joseph Lancaster
#75. Reality television gave me an amazing feeling of moral and intellectual superiority without actually requiring any effort past moving the dogs to find the remote.
Jen Lancaster
#76. When she gets rattled, the South really comes out. Once when Daddy tried to cancel our country club membership because he said the dues were too high, she went from zero to Atlanta burning in zero point five seconds.
Jen Lancaster
#77. I married a man who isn't afraid to wash a dish, scrub a toilet, or have his unibrow waxed into submission by a licensed professional.
Jen Lancaster
#78. I could manage my life so much better if an app could tell me exactly when my parcels will be delivered so I don't spend the day under virtual house arrest.
Jen Lancaster
#79. The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.
Joseph Lancaster
#80. Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.
John Green
#81. Love is bullshit and weird and stupid, but shit, man, if you have love, everybody should leave you alone and let you keep it for as long as you can.
Craig Lancaster
#82. The issue of who will throw the garbage won't be so trivial when no one is throwing it away, and it starts to stink. When the plates pile up in the kitchen sink, or when the bathroom is grimy and the shampoo ran out. No, it won't be funny then.
Eeva Lancaster
#83. In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
John Lancaster Spalding
#84. The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.
John Lancaster Spalding
#85. The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
John Lancaster Spalding
#86. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster." "Meaning what, precisely?" "That it reflects a great deal more of yourself to your senses than you probably know.
Jim Butcher
#87. I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
Jen Lancaster
#88. I'm not one of those folks who have to face death to live life. I
Jen Lancaster
#89. Everyday I feel more and more like a full-fledged adult. Even though it was (metaphorically) only yesterday I was sloshing in the door at four a.m. after Dollar Beer Night, I find myself with a mortgage, four types of insurance, and a non-laundry-quarter-based retirement fund.
Jen Lancaster
#90. I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!
Jonathan Groff
#91. You kids are handling this a whole lot better than he is.'
I wondered if that meant we were pretty darned tough.
Or whether we simply lacked the imagination to see how bad things really were
Mike A. Lancaster
#92. Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stupid than you give them credit for.
Mike A. Lancaster
#93. I have no desire to spend every night of the next few months at balls and soirees or drowning in tea with morning callers.
Sarah M. Eden
#94. Like it. And, hey, why do I have so much sand in my crotch? Okay,
Jen Lancaster
#96. I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.
Jen Lancaster
#97. I tried eHarmony, because I liked the white hair and glasses of that guy on the commercials, and his manner was gentle, but eHarmony told me that the system and it's twenty nine levels of compatibility couldn't find anyone for me.
That hurt my feelings.
Craig Lancaster
#98. When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes.
Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a cotton pad?"
I'm not taking them off."
Why not?"
I spent $180 on that makeup job and I refuse to wash my face until I get my money's worth.
Jen Lancaster
#99. Yeah, I'm over forty, flighty, and fluffy- I'd say I'm not ideal bouncer material.
Jen Lancaster
#100. Lindsey: Why would you choose me?
Rafe: Because you're the one I want.
Rachel Hawthorne
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