Famous Quotes & Sayings

Archie Panjabi

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Ayelet Waldman

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

Ayn Rand

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

Brenda Ueland

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

Amy Jo Johnson

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

Dree Hemingway

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.

Alicia Silverstone

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

AnnaLynne McCord

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

Sophia Loren

I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.

Taissa Farmiga

When I was younger, I didn't have any aspirations to be an actress.

Michelle Trachtenberg

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

Norma Shearer

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Maud Adams

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

Scott Snyder

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

Mike Tyson

Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

Lana Wood

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

Fred Melamed

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.

Pete Sampras

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

Billy Wagner

There are a lot of things you don't do, taking one step back to take one forward. You're just standing still. The Mets seem to be moving forward.