Unfashionable Dowdy Quotes

#1. Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

Walter Gilbert

#2. All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Light them both - I'll have to have one to see the other by.

Mark Twain

#4. You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels.

Ken Follett

#5. When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it's getting easier, but being a mother - it's a difficult thing to juggle.

Nicole Holofcener

#6. Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.

Maria Cantwell

#7. Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

Dev Patel

#8. I kept my eyes open on the ride home. Peeking over Lucas's shoulder, i watched the scenery fly by-and it was exhilarating, not frightening. I trusted him. I had since that first night, when i let him drive me home.

Tammara Webber

#9. True love is giving, not getting. Someone has said, "Love can always wait to give, but lust can never wait to get.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#10. Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.

John Perry