Rbg Quotes

#1. Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

Christian Bale

#2. It is as though a special, zestful spice seasons my work and days," RBG said after her first recovery. "Each thing I do comes with a heightened appreciation that I am able to do it." That

Irin Carmon

#3. For some reason, people repeatedly have asked RBG when she thought there would be enough women on the court. The question is asinine, her answer effective: 'When there are nine.

Irin Carmon

#4. RBG has never been very interested in drawing attention to herself without a good reason. That's how you know that when she does send up smoke signals, something has gone very wrong.

Irin Carmon

#5. RBG's most famous words in the Hobby Lobby dissent could have appeared in any of her searing dissents: "The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield.

Irin Carmon

#6. RBG also understood that how pregnant women were treated had to do with sex. Only a woman's body showed proof of having sex, and only women were punished for having it.

Irin Carmon

#7. What Wiesenfeld meant by "alternative," and what was hinted by RBG's use of the phrase life partner was a marriage in which the woman didn't lose herself and her autonomy, in which two humans shared their lives and goals on equal footing.

Irin Carmon

#8. Where wealth is concerned, individuals aren't stuck in little boxes. You don't start out wealthy, stay wealthy, and end wealthy.

Jean Chatzky

#9. When the jabot with scalloped glass beads glitters flat against the top of RBG's black robe, it's bad news for liberals. That's her dissent collar.

Irin Carmon

#10. Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.' (Danger)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. RBG often repeated her mother's advice that getting angry was a waste of your own time. Even more often, she shared her mother-in-law's counsel for marriage: that sometimes it helped to be a little deaf.

Irin Carmon

#12. When you're going through hell, go full throttle.

Terry Irving

#13. Some grow very attached to a modern diversion known as the 'Crossword Puzzle.' We've had several come

Brandon Sanderson

#14. Any rehearsal process - I find, anyway - does have quite an effect on me, and I very much live in that world for the whole period of time that I'm involved with the production. But normally, afterwards with a little bit of space, I can come right back out of it again.

Laura Donnelly

#15. When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.

Michael Ondaatje

#16. there are circumstances that trump personal feelings.

Phil Klay

#17. But lately, RBG was tired of pretending not to hear.

Irin Carmon

#18. I'm not scared of anything. But cats ... ' He blew out a puff of air and shook his head. Those soulless eyes. That depraved indifference. Cats are evil, dude.

Gina Damico

#19. Thirdly, Christ's salvation must be a free gift. He 'purchased' it for us at the high price of his own life-blood. So what is there left for us to pay? Nothing! Since he claimed that all was now 'finished', there is nothing for us to contribute.

John R.W. Stott

#20. You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Barack Obama

#21. I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

Ansel Elgort

#22. RBG's main concession to hitting her late seventies was to give up waterskiing.

Irin Carmon

#23. Her former Columbia Law mentee Diane Zimmerman remembers the exuberant party thrown by students and faculty. RBG sat on the floor giggling, eating Kentucky Fried Chicken out of a bucket.

Irin Carmon

#24. Anyway, hope springs eternal. If I lose today, there's hope that tomorrow will be better." - RBG, 2012

Irin Carmon

#25. I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

Carol Moseley Braun

#26. A lot of wasted time, to the Dogman's mind, but once you've been fool enough to ask for a task, you better do the one you're given.n

Joe Abercrombie

#27. A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks.

Scott McClellan

#28. April 18, 2007: RBG launches her era of furious dissent with the abortion case Gonzales v. Carhart.

Irin Carmon

#29. Put another way, RBG was already a radical just by being herself - a woman who beat the odds to make her mark.

Irin Carmon