Lori Gottlieb Quotes

#1. Esk wouldn't have known what a collective noun was if it had spat in her eye, but she knew there was a herd of goats and a coven of witches.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props!

Anika Noni Rose

#3. I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

Adam Carolla

#4. The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not t satisfy someone else's opinion.

Deepak Chopra

#5. The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Abraham Verghese

#6. Sarah Palin. Remember Sarah Palin? She is adorable. She is back on the campaign trail. Really. She's going to campaign in the Senate runoff in Georgia. As soon as she finds out where Georgia is.

Craig Ferguson

#7. We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

Francois Fenelon

#8. By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up,

Lori Gottlieb

#9. The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"

Lori Gottlieb

#10. Well, I think there's something wrong with everyone, don't you?

Nicola Yoon

#11. At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.

Sylvester Stallone

#12. The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.

David Frum

#13. We do not kill an Iraqi.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#14. I don't think anything connects with an audience as deeply as a long-form serialized drama, and much as I love television, I've always found a good ongoing comics series to be much more immersive.

Brian K. Vaughan

#15. Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we're depriving them of happiness as adults?

Lori Gottlieb

#16. This nation loves singing and loves acting.

Kate Smith

#17. Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

Lori Gottlieb

#18. Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.

Grenville Kleiser

#19. What makes for a good marriage isn't necessarily what makes for a good romantic relationship. Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane and often boring non-profit business. And I mean this in a good way.

Lori Gottlieb