Top 100 Paula Quotes
#1. As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no longer feels real to you.
Paula Hawkins
#2. It doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. I feel bad, but the thing that I've done - it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me.
Paula Hawkins
#3. If optimism is the highest form of courage
as I am beginning to believe it is
then these students are all heroes.
Paula Huntley
#4. Sometimes I think I'm the worst sheep of all.
Paula Stokes
#5. Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school.
Andy Paula
#6. Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.
Paula Rego
#7. I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.
Paula Cole
#8. I'm not even that upset about the rejection any more. What bothers me most is that I haven't got to the end of my story, and I can't start over with someone else, it's too hard.
Paula Hawkins
#9. People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
Paula Hawkins
#10. As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.
Paula Malcomson
#11. I am proof that the American dream still exists.
Paula Deen
#12. He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that we keep them because we might want to read them again. And because they remind us of how we felt when we read them.
Paula Marantz Cohen
#13. I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.
Paula Danziger
#14. Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease.
Michelle Malkin
#15. Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds ...
Paula Gunn Allen
#16. The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, No thank you. Were I as perfect as you are demanding, life would be rather boring.
Paula Heller Garland
#17. he grinned a grin that began in his eyes and went everywhere at once. It was devastating.
Paula McLain
#18. Life is not a journey you want to make on autopilot.
Paula Rinehart
#19. Did you ever think it could be like this? The way we're happening to each other?
Paula McLain
#20. I get why no one bothers with the usual rules," ... "I was in the war, too, you know. Nothing looks or feels the same anymore, so what's the point?" ... "Still, I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else.
Paula McLain
#21. I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.
Paula Fox
#22. That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
Paula Rego
#23. God is more interested in securing my forever happiness than my temporary happiness.
Paula Hendricks
#24. But then I think, this happens sometimes, doesn't it? People you have a history with, they won't let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can't disentangle yourself, can't set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.
Paula Hawkins
#25. Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.
Paula McLain
#26. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone
#27. Apparently, what differentiates the mere rich from the filthy rich is a servant who treats you like dirt.
Paula Wall
#28. and was there for the birth, on 25 February
Paula McLain
#29. If you lead with passion anything is possible!
Paula Abdul
#30. I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.
Paula Radcliffe
#32. Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.
Paula Fox
#33. Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.
Paula Gunn Allen
#34. All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.
Paula Heller Garland
#35. What's your big hurry? It's only been four months.
Paula Kay
#36. I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.
Paula Yates
#37. If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.
Paula Fox
#38. Beware a calm surface - you never know what lies beneath.
Paula Hawkins
#39. When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.
Paula Fox
#40. Mrs. Astor had long held that artists of any ilk - painters, authors, actors and the like - merit no recognition unless safely dead, and that meeting them risks both needless mental fatigue and the possibility of social contamination.
Paula Cohen
#41. First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.
Paula Patton
#42. Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.
Paula Vogel
#43. I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who have witnessed it.
Paula Hawkins
#44. I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.
Paula Patton
#45. There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.
Paula Fox
#46. And my heart is breaking
My heart is lying on the floor in a pool of tears
I keep asking the same questions only to have them unanswered
Paula Heller Garland
#47. My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.
Paula Fox
#48. It seems to me that dealing with little boys is a lot like playing poker. You need to know when to hold them, when to fold them, and when to walk away. But the most important thing you need to know is, oral contraceptives are only 97 percent effective.
Paula Wall
#49. I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.
Cherry Jones
#50. There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier is breached.
Paula Reed
#51. I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.
Paula Hawkins
#52. I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.
Paula Radcliffe
#54. I never thought I'd get married," I told Boy as he poured for us. Scotch spilled into the squat glasses with reassuring lapping noises. "I should have left well enough alone." "You don't need to explain.
Paula McLain
#55. A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can't remember why any of it mattered. It doesn't help if you're a soldier. The effect is the same.
Paula McLain
#56. I once read a book by a former alcoholic where she described giving oral sex to two different men, men she'd just met in a restaurant on a busy London high street. I read it and thought, I'm not that bad. This is where the bar is set.
Paula Hawkins
#57. If you are not able to travel, he told me, the next best thing is to read. Read all you can, girl. And store up that knowledge, for you never know when you will need it.
Paula Brackston
#58. You know what I regret the most? Trinity says, her voice just above a whisper.
I don't answer. All I can think about is how crappy it is that my fourteen-year-old sister already has regrets.
Paula Stokes
#59. Lookin' at ye is like baskin' in the summer sun after a long, cold winter. 'Tis like seein' home after a battle that's left ye empty and alone." He kissed her mouth, her nose, her eyes. "I dinna' know how 'tis possible, but each time I see ye, ye grow more beautiful to me.
Paula Quinn
#60. No really, Lainey. Give it a chance. Millions of readers can't be wrong."
"That's like saying millions of boy-band fans can't be wrong," I mutter, but I flip through a few more pages.
Paula Stokes
#62. Don't be difficult, Denys," Nell chided. "All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?
Paula McLain
#63. We stood there, locked and lovely as statues in a garden.
Paula McLain
#64. Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.
Paula McLain
#65. I don't think you can just choose to believe in God. You either do or you don't, and no matter what camp you're in, it would take something life-changing to truly lead you into the other one.
Paula Stokes
#66. I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
Paula Danziger
#67. I don't really have a 'favorite' person to play with. I like to play with the player that is playing the best, but it doesn't always work out that way.
Paula Creamer
#68. The child must be given activities that encourage independence, and he must not be served by others in acts he can learn to perform himself.
Paula Polk Lillard
#69. Poetry is good for unleashing images.
Paula Rego
#70. Every woman should recruit a female friend to take up golf so there will be more women available to play.
Paula Creamer
#72. I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.
Paula Radcliffe
#73. It's just what they are - they're jokes ... most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks ... I can't determine what offends another person.
Paula Deen
#74. Yes. And Paula's a bitch," I said without preamble. "You mean Miss Mint Julep Ladygirl Fiddle-dee-dee? Yeah. Screw her.
C.D. Reiss
#75. I've no desire to do one of those 50-mile races like the Comrades or anything like that.
Paula Radcliffe
#76. I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.
Paula Patton
#77. There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.
Paula Fox
#78. let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things - their looks and their role as mothers.
Paula Hawkins
#79. When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
Paula Abdul
#80. People may say no one ever died of a broken heart, but when you're suffering from one, it sure doesn't feel that way
at least initially.
Paula Heller Garland
#81. I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.
Paula Cole
#82. Proper learning isn't just useful in society, Beryl. It can be wonderfully yours, a thing to have and keep just for you.
Paula McLain
#83. He is watching me, waiting for me to say something, to
Paula Hawkins
#84. People belong together to each other only as long as they believe. He stopped believing.
Paula McLain
#85. I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Amber Brown
Paula Danziger
#86. You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.
Paula Deen
#87. It's me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.
Paula Cole
#89. Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
Paula Malcomson
#90. When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking."
Isabel Allende
#91. A balanced diet is a cookie in both hands.
Paula Deen
#92. Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.
Paula Abdul
#93. But I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them.
Paula Hawkins
#94. New Zealand looks like the future to me
Paula Scher
#95. I watch him come, I watch him, and I don't move until he's almost upon me, and then I swing. I jam the vicious twist of the corkscrew into his neck.
Paula Hawkins
#96. I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.
Brit Hume
#97. When I look at Tom, I thank God that he found me, too, that I was there to rescue him from that woman. She'd have driven him mad in the end, I really think that - she'd have ground him down, she'd have made him into something he's not.
Paula Hawkins
#98. The memory doesn't fit with the reality, because I don't remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear.
Paula Hawkins
#99. I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.
Paula Radcliffe
#100. In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.
Paula Danziger
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