I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recently, a wall hanging made in the style of Georges Seurat.


Rebecca Stead

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
SAINT JEROME
Never look a gift horse in the mouth!
ST. JEROME
We are waiting quietly in anticipation. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
DWAYNE CROMBIE
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. [Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.]
SAINT JEROME
They say, 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth,' but when it's a Trojan horse, you do.
ERIC JOHANSSON
Never look a gift lion in the mouth.
LEMONY SNICKET
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse has g...
ARI ADLER
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it fr...
ILONA ANDREWS
I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been ve...
ZENDAYA
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. I...
SYLVESTER STALLONE
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.
DEBBIE HARRY
I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions ...
ANDRE DUBUS III
I've always had a loud mouth, and for that I've gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in s...
JOHNNY WEIR
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS
You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS
People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON
Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON
Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT

More Rebecca Stead

From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses,...
REBECCA STEAD
I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I ...
REBECCA STEAD
I've met seven homeschooling families through many, many extracurricular activities such as fenc...
REBECCA STEAD
I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and R...
REBECCA STEAD
Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.
REBECCA STEAD
Some feeling had started in my stomach and was traveling up to my face, and I knew that when it got ...
REBECCA STEAD
Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried...
REBECCA STEAD
'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of...
REBECCA STEAD
If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do...
REBECCA STEAD
Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride wears on he...
REBECCA STEAD
[she used to say that] each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world – like a ...
REBECCA STEAD
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a ligh...
REBECCA STEAD
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough...
CHRISTINA STEAD
If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough...
CHRISTINA STEAD
I've never yet met an untalented person.
MARGARET STEAD
She's got excellent educational and criminal justice credentials, and she has shown too that she has...
CYNTHIA STEAD
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
CHRISTINA STEAD
Unlike some not so gracious winners in the past, she never had an enemies list. She never held it ag...
CYNTHIA STEAD
We're all expecting an announcement relatively soon, one way or the other as to whether (Romney) is ...
CYNTHIA STEAD
It broadcasts your availability to the work 'universe' without any of the reserve normally found in ...
MARGARET STEAD
As a rule of thumb the average back-to-work time for non-supported individuals is six or more months...
MARGARET STEAD
I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just ...
REBECCA SUGAR
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend ...
REBECCA MACKINNON
More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power b...
REBECCA SOLNIT
Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming...
REBECCA WELLS
I love hats and winter is the perfect time for them. I love winter time fashion.
REBECCA FERGUSON
Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully b...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revoluti...
REBECCA SOLNIT
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intellig...
REBECCA WEST
In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contend...
REBECCA TRAISTER
You have to be really strong in the music industry, and I'm naturally very timid. That was reall...
REBECCA FERGUSON
Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken...
REBECCA MACKINNON
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier ma...
REBECCA TRAISTER
The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world...
REBECCA MACKINNON
When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese w...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST
I hate women because they always know where things are.
REBECCA WEST
I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be o...
REBECCA MAKKAI
To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 an...
REBECCA BLACK
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and mat...
REBECCA WEST
The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
REBECCA WEST
I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for ...
REBECCA MAKKAI
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a g...
REBECCA WEST
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
REBECCA WEST
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pros...
REBECCA WEST
When I get a brand new bag, I wear it for months and months.
REBECCA GAYHEART
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
REBECCA WEST
Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
REBECCA WEST
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
REBECCA WEST
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is...
REBECCA WEST
The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social med...
REBECCA MACKINNON
The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and ...
REBECCA MCNUTT
Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary.
REBECCA MCNUTT
How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized h...
REBECCA SOLNIT
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST
She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent...
REBECCA WEST
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the p...
REBECCA WEST
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers j...
REBECCA WEST
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent di...
REBECCA WEST
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
REBECCA WEST
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vi...
REBECCA WEST
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
REBECCA WEST
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so ...
REBECCA WEST
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
REBECCA FALLS
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's...
REBECCA WEST
He is every other inch a gentleman.
REBECCA WEST
Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better...
REBECCA WEST
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sle...
REBECCA WEST
Being classy is my teenage rebellion.
REBECCA MCKINSEY
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform ...
REBECCA WEST
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of ...
REBECCA WEST
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from ...
REBECCA WEST
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
REBECCA WEST
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of...
REBECCA PIDGEON
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
REBECCA WEST
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
REBECCA MACKINNON
My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for g...
REBECCA LOBO
Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe ...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18...
REBECCA HALL
I'm really inspired by the show 'Future Boy Conan' from the '70s. It's a really ...
REBECCA SUGAR
Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's...
REBECCA TRAISTER
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.
REBECCA HALL
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make...
REBECCA PIDGEON
As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mecha...
REBECCA MACKINNON
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they ri...
REBECCA SOLNIT
It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, ...
REBECCA SOLNIT
Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the cou...
REBECCA TRAISTER
I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermod...
REBECCA ROMIJN
There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'He...
REBECCA HALL
Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.
REBECCA HALL
Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'
REBECCA MACKINNON
It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off...
REBECCA TRAISTER
I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
REBECCA LOOS
'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in...
REBECCA BLACK
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, a...
REBECCA SOLNIT
When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they...
REBECCA MAKKAI
Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough ...
REBECCA ROMIJN
Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.
REBECCA LOOS
I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.
REBECCA LOOS
I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't b...
REBECCA LOOS
I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame...
REBECCA LOOS
I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
REBECCA LOOS
I did not know what my future was going to hold.
REBECCA LOOS
I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I'...
REBECCA LOOS
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentif...
REBECCA WELLS
Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mech...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Right after September 11, 2001, there weren't really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.
REBECCA MACKINNON
The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the ...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I don't think there's any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalisin...
REBECCA MACKINNON
The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where...
REBECCA MACKINNON
The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global e...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and ...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they...
REBECCA HALL
Since 'Christine' started screening, I'm overwhelmed by the response from women and men ...
REBECCA HALL
I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio.
REBECCA HALL
These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if techn...
REBECCA MCNUTT
The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
REBECCA SOLNIT
I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three ...
REBECCA SOLNIT
If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it con...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular...
REBECCA HALL
I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to...
REBECCA GAYHEART
An airplane should never lean too much to the left or the right, because it puts every passenger int...
REBECCA MCNUTT
She is shocked by the rows of thick Plexiglas windows, each equipped with a telephone, each with a p...
REBECCA MCNUTT
Every day it’s something worse being predicted. Mearth says that sooner or later copyright on book...
REBECCA MCNUTT
Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone,” her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ...
REBECCA MCNUTT
Love helped me live life instead of just survive it.
REBECCA DONOVAN
We were engaged in a very intricate dance of touching without touching, knowing without saying, and ...
REBECCA DONOVAN
Caro remembered how it was to lie so unself-consciously next to her best friends. Her aging body rec...
REBECCA WELLS
On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Goog...
REBECCA MACKINNON
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.
REBECCA PIDGEON
And second, everyone is so weird, but they're all completely accepted. It's like, okay, you h...
REBECCA MAKKAI
[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
REBECCA WEST
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT
It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp act...
REBECCA SERLE
Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to ...
REBECCA LOBO
Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the off...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authorit...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I think that technology - computers and smart phones and 24-hour availability - often leaves me, and...
REBECCA TRAISTER
I was one of those little girls who practiced signing autographs since I was 5 years old.
REBECCA BLACK
I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have...
REBECCA SOLNIT
Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep p...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that...
REBECCA SOLNIT
The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal fami...
REBECCA SOLNIT
Eating apples is good on so many levels. There's fiber in the skin that's really good for yo...
REBECCA ROMIJN
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
REBECCA SOLNIT
There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds t...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a be...
REBECCA HALL
I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.
REBECCA HALL
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you ...
REBECCA SOLNIT
Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do ...
REBECCA TRAISTER
I like Sam Bailey - she's got a huge voice.
REBECCA FERGUSON
The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.
REBECCA MACKINNON
Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people...
REBECCA MACKINNON
You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writi...
REBECCA SUGAR
Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.
REBECCA PIDGEON
We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people...
REBECCA HALL
I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer ...
REBECCA FERGUSON
I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly gett...
REBECCA FERGUSON
I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the ti...
REBECCA SUGAR
Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't ...
REBECCA FERGUSON
We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster...
REBECCA SOLNIT
There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am...
REBECCA HALL
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggle...
REBECCA SOLNIT
I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Be...
REBECCA LOOS
…I’m afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important�...
REBECCA MCNUTT
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is...
REBECCA SOLNIT
What are you doing?” Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him t...
REBECCA MCNUTT
She dug into one of the boxes, finding clay angels she’d made in art class when she was seven year...
REBECCA MCNUTT
Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially ...
REBECCA MCNUTT
The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.
REBECCA MCKINSEY
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
REBECCA WEST
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
REBECCA WEST
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
REBECCA WEST
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone...
REBECCA SOLNIT
I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into n...
REBECCA MILLER
I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying ...
REBECCA HALL
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolu...
REBECCA MACKINNON
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ...
REBECCA TRAISTER
I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the id...
REBECCA HALL
You scare me, Ryan Daley. Even more than those demons outside that scream for my death. How is it th...
REBECCA LIM
I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people...
REBECCA FERGUSON
It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and i...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Tell me again about the girl whose hands
have no color. Whose hands are completely
white. ...
REBECCA WADLINGER
Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a co...
REBECCA PIDGEON
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting...
REBECCA WEST
Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. Yo...
REBECCA MCNUTT
Credibility is a basic survival tool.
REBECCA SOLNIT
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering...
REBECCA SOLNIT
Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on o...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand ou...
REBECCA MACKINNON
One reason that we have collectively plugged our ears against a decade of dismal revelations about B...
REBECCA TRAISTER
Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies wi...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you wi...
REBECCA HALL