Top 100 Paula's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language.
Simon Cowell
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.
Paula Rego
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone
#11. What's your big hurry? It's only been four months.
Paula Kay
#12. 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
#13. I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.
Paula Patton
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things - their looks and their role as mothers.
Paula Hawkins
#21. It's me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.
Paula Cole
#22. Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
Paula Malcomson
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.
Paula Fox
#26. I've never travelled," I told her. "Oh, you absolutely should," she insisted, "if only so that you can come home and really see it for what it is. That's my favourite part.
Paula McLain
#27. Because you can't chart a course around anything you're afraid of. You can't run from any part of yourself, and it's better that you can't. Sometimes I've thought it's only our challenges that sharpen us, and change us, too - a
Paula McLain
#28. I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.
Paula Deen
#29. To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things ...
Paula Rego
#30. She has her fingers curled tightly around his forefinger and I have hold of her perfect pink foot, and I feel as though fireworks are going off in my chest. It's impossible, this much love.
Paula Hawkins
#31. I like to work on New Year's Eve. It has a nice spirit; a nice feel about it. If you are all about the 'year-end' thing at all, then laughing with fellow human beings is a great way to start the new year.
Paula Poundstone
#32. Only the day before, Cockie's dark joke wouldn't have included me, but now it did. "Is love always such a mess, do you suppose?
Paula McLain
#33. You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.
Paula Abdul
#34. Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.
Paula Deen
#35. I believe that ... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.
Paula Deen
#36. I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.
Paula Cole
#37. There is something intoxicating about ending a life, about wiping bad people off the face of the earth. But it's also a dark and deadly pull. After all, who am I to decide who lives or dies?
Paula Stokes
#38. I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.
Paula Malcomson
#39. Nobody ever wants to have change, that's for sure. But when it's good, it's really good.
Paula Creamer
#40. I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
Paula Poundstone
#41. I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
Paula Cole
#42. I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.
Paula Poundstone
#43. I am so blessed. I've been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake up in the morning and see what blessing is going to come my way that day. Because you never, ever know what God's got in store for you.
Paula Deen
#44. We are not killers," Gideon says firmly.
"In my experience everyone is a killer." Baz's eyes go cold. He leans back against the wall. "Or a victim. Some people just need a little coaxing to choose a side.
Paula Stokes
#45. It's good to be back, feeling like myself and enjoying it.
Paula Radcliffe
#46. I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!
Paula Deen
#47. Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.
Paula Deen
#48. she finds it funny or whether she's trying to appease him.
Paula Hawkins
#49. There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say.
Paula Abdul
#51. It's transference, Megan," he said. "It happens from time to time. It happens to me, too. I really should have introduced this topic last time. I'm sorry." I
Paula Hawkins
#52. In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.
Paula Radcliffe
#53. I figure it's almost like a balance. We're eating these wonderful collard greens and turnip greens which are so medicinally good for you and, OK, so what if it has a little ham hock in it?
Paula Deen
#54. Are you always this wise, Ruth?"
"Only when it comes to other people's lives.
Paula McLain
#55. It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.
Paula Radcliffe
#56. Just because a woman is good at something doesn't necessarily mean it's what she should do in life. If that were the case most of the women in the Belle family would be hookers.
Paula Wall
#57. Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.
Paula Patton
#58. I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out,
Paula Deen
#59. If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back
if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you ... I is what I is, and I'm not changing.
Paula Deen
#60. People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.
Paula Cole
#61. It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.
Paula Radcliffe
#62. She picked me up, dusted me off, and kicked my ass. Maybe we all need that from time to time. If we're lucky, there's someone there who cares enough to do it.
Paula Garner
#63. But it's not so bad, I can think of worse traits in a flatmate. No, it's not Cathy, it's not even Ashbury that bothers me most about my new situation (I still think of it as new, although it's been two years). It's the loss of control.
Paula Hawkins
#64. I wasn't enjoying golf much. I was kind of getting a little bit tired, I was getting a little bit moody, and I was constantly getting angry. That's not me. And when I saw that I knew I had to change.
Paula Creamer
#65. I have been married to my wife, Paula, for 25 years. We have wonderful kids. Things are - it's been a really rich life, so I started thinking, is there a way to get valence a little more into the stories, the idea that, yes, things can go wrong, but also they can go right.
George Saunders
#66. Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.
Paula Fox
#67. Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell.
Paula Deen
#68. Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.
Paula Patton
#69. You know, the Bible says God never puts more on you than you can bear, right? You are carrying as much as you can right now. Whether or not that's more or less than what I can handle is irrelevant. Suffering is not a contest
Paula Wiseman
#70. Some people think they can just decree that everything will be fine. The world doesn't work like that. I'm not sure the world gives a crap about anyone's promises, well-meaning or otherwise. Sometimes the Universe just takes what it wants.
Paula Stokes
#71. Beyond the snowy trees, the endless high-rises of Seoul have faded to a blurry gray shadow, but their presence hasn't dwindled. Even in the poor visibility, there's no denying that the city feels like the walls of a fortress, a fortress that is both protecting us and trapping us.
Paula Stokes
#72. They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
Dan Rather
#73. Because it's not always easy to know how to live.
Paula McLain
#74. I don't believe in soul mates, but there's an understanding between us that I just haven't felt before, or at least, not for a long time. It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken.
Paula Hawkins
#76. I've always loved to sing in Spanish. To me, it's just my culture. It's what I am; I'm Latina.
Paula DeAnda
#77. The worst events always have the thrust of accidents, as if they come out of nowhere. But that's just lack of perspective.
Paula McLain
#78. I study her expression, trying to memorize what love looks like, just in case things don't work out. Apparently, it looks vulnerable, like a dog that's been hit by a car. Just lying there on the pavement, waiting for you to run into the street and scoop it up in your arms.
Paula Stokes
#79. The train stops at the signal as usual. I can see Jess standing on the patio in front of the French doors. She's wearing a bright print dress, her feet are bare.
Paula Hawkins
#80. Tom's whole life was constructed on lies - falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was.
Paula Hawkins
#81. There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. Actually, it's probably easier. And these days, there are a lot more women out there than there used to be. It's not like when I was young. I was always the only girl on the range.
Paula Creamer
#82. I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all, and get real down and dirty.
Paula Patton
#83. Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!
Paula White
#84. When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.
Paula Hawkins
#85. If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that's success for me.
Paula Scher
#86. I really appreciate and respect the audience. People pay their hard-earned money to go watch you, so I feel like it's my job to give 100,000% of myself to what I'm doing.
Paula Patton
#87. I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!
Paula Creamer
#89. Maybe that's the secret to surviving all sorts of trouble, knowing who you are apart from it, I mean.
Paula McLain
#90. Hitler's brothers are on the rise, they're wearing everyday disguises.
Paula Cole
#91. Paula laughed, remembering more of her mother's words: Better to be unhappy in a Mercedes-Benz than unhappy on a bus. To which Paula had always responded, I'd rather be happy.
Fiona Higgins
#92. adult's role is to "teach children limits with love or the world will teach them without it.
Paula Polk Lillard
#93. Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts.
Paula Wagner
#94. My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.
Paula Poundstone
#95. It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers.
Paula Hawkins
#96. I'm a good liar," he told me once with a grin. Once, he said, "Even if she did check, the thing with Rachel is, she won't remember what happened tomorrow anyway." That's when I started to realize just how bad things were for him. It
Paula Hawkins
#97. Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.
Paula Nelson
#98. Here's the truth about healing. It's a fucking myth - an idea they try to sell you on to keep you from killing yourself. You love someone and they leave, but they never entirely go away. You feel them there, acutely, like an amputated limb.
Paula Garner
#99. We're like dominoes, Beckett and I. I've tipped us forward until everything is set in motion. I can't stop us from colliding. I should enjoy the fall while it lasts. But I know the end is coming too. The quiet. The day where everything has fallen and there's nothing left but a mess.
Rebecca Paula
#100. If something is unbearable, then how do you bear it? It's an oxymoron. And yet I was here, wasn't I? Somehow I was bearing it.
Paula Garner
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