Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.


Barbara Ehrenreich

  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

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER
I have a mug that actually verifies that I'm the world's best dad. That's a mug. That...
STEPHEN COLBERT
The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE
Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
Predictions are a mug's game.
NIGEL FARAGE
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE
The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE
Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE
It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE
I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
C. JOYBELL C.
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C.
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE
A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS
…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS
Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE
Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE
Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY
We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed...
ANN EDWARDS CANNON
When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE
Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER
When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI
It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI
We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL
If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS
To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS...
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH
Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE
This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS
And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS
And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS
You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS
The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS
…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS
For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS
In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS
He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE
Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL
You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY
It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ...
DEYTH BANGER
In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA
I ran a campaign that offered a simple and straightforward promise: I will fight like hell to get ac...
ALAN ROSENBERG
I only earn $560 a month and of that, over $200 a month goes to my bus fare. I have a 15-year-old an...
LINDA COX
I have a coffee mug that my dad gave me years ago that has the San Mateo police logo and my dad'...
MICHAEL TRUCCO
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER
Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER
Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Love, what you DO, Respect, who DOES for you, Appreciate, who DOES for others, Salute, who DOES for ...
PRITISH PATTANAIK
Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so fo...
JAMES VI & I
He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.”

-Helen to Sophia about Alistair
ELIZABETH HOYT
She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i...
ELIZABETH HOYT
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE
Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE
The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
LEWIS N. ROE

More Barbara Ehrenreich

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite app...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the t...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You coul...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breas...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of inter...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment y...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
America is addicted to wars of distraction
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminis...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who w...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, o...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color cat...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Marriage is socialism among two people.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landsca...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a t...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child wi...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists po...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the trul...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical m...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger pe...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacri...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they a...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without g...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-sh...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but t...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for th...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love televisi...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a gr...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the n...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocu...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harasse...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would s...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can s...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. Aft...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figur...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia
BARBARA EHRENREICH
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Gre...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the exi...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. Th...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the e...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encoura...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-grea...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar sit...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, yo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America a...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I had too much else to do. I didn't want to turn into a newspaper columnist full time.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
How hard can this be? If I go out there with a good résumé - which I created - looking for a PR jo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Whoa, where am I? How do I process this?
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I couldn't help but feel, I won't say rejected - but I so seldom got a nibble of any kind - that I j...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers br...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, fo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, o...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
In my experience, any class or assembly restricted to girls was going to be in some way degrading, l...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in P...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
In books, coaching sessions, and networking events aimed at the white-collar unemployed, the seeker ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to t...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
We (the left) have to be used to being a minority—a small minority—for some time to come. The od...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thr...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to i...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their ha...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen e...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?
BARBARA EHRENREICH
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal sh...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that expe...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we he...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on myst...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.&...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? An...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my d...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to hav...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, an...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a da...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks vo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I'm not a nice person.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a fem...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The stree...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get impriso...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a g...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genr...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation: it's a calling. You have an inner intui...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I had a meeting with the producer of 'Five Easy Pieces,' which is my favorite movie. He intr...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especi...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt w...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I think, for me, the only real value to fame, stuff like that, is that you can then have a lot more ...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything ...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impa...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a g...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff li...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Something that is appealing to me about old Hollywood is job security.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
No one remembers it; none of my friends remember me having it, but I had really bad acne for, like, ...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I made short films in school.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
My feeling is that I don't really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about th...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
The people I see every day have known me since I was a little fat kid.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Bro...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
My favorite one... it's hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is 'A Serio...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always k...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't wan...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world th...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER
In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS
I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS
I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE