Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.


Laura Mennell

  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

Puppy mills create misery for dogs and pain for the unwitting purchasers of the animals, and they in...
WAYNE PACELLE
I do have a place in my heart for animal shelters because the job they have is impossible - so many ...
KEVIN NEALON
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That'...
SHELLEY MORRISON
Animals shouldn't suffer for the sake of beauty.
DREA DE MATTEO
Animals shouldn't be mistreated.
TUCKER CARLSON
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegeta...
LAURA MENNELL
You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all ani...
PETER SINGER
When you see the horrible conditions that these animals live in, you wonder why operators of puppy m...
TONY CARDENAS
We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON
Other places - some of them will kill [animals] in 48 hours. There is just an enormous need to manag...
MARNIE WAIWAT
Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed th...
INGRID NEWKIRK
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them bet...
BETTY WHITE
I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I would...
PETER DINKLAGE
Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming ...
PAUL RODRIGUEZ
These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don'...
TIPPI HEDREN
I don't care when people honk at me, but when geese do, I get out of the way!
ANIMALS
You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're ju...
ANIMALS
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and ...
ANIMALS
I always try to cheer myself up by singing when I get sad. Most of the time, it turns out that my v...
ANIMALS
I'm not bored of being quarantined, last night I even struck up a conversation with a spider. Turns ...
ANIMALS
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
ANIMALS
People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet ...
ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS
For me, being a part of the ASPCA is a great way to tie in my love for animals and my love for New Y...
GEORGINA BLOOMBERG
I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are ill...
AMANDA HEARST
There are no pet stores that sell 9-foot sharks. You've got to get them some other way. We're going ...
JOHN HEWITT
You wouldn't believe how many of these drivers have animals and how important it is for them to have...
LAURA LACY
You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. Y...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together a...
ALISON GOPNIK
There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the bla...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA
Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals unt...
BRUCE GREENWOOD
I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.
DOMINIQUE SWAIN
In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
MALCOLM DE CHAZAL
If you love animals, please don't eat them.
ESHA GUPTA
Many shelters conduct behavior-based evaluations on animals they take in, but there are few better d...
JAMES SERPELL
Following Katrina, we went over to Lafayette to help. They were keeping animals at Blackham Coliseum...
DANA FRYE
If you have 100 acres worth of food, and you've got 500 animals out there, the young ones and th...
SHAWN MICHAELS
I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I d...
RORY FREEDMAN
You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all ...
TIPPI HEDREN
I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they los...
JOHN RIDLEY
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
TAYLOR CALDWELL
We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're the...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
I'll still be working with rescue groups in Southern Illinois, and be able to move some of the anima...
DONNA HAWK
I probably shouldn't say this about all animals, but at least the farm animals that I've hun...
KRISTEN SCHAAL
Outside openings to attics, crawl spaces and similar locations should be sealed off so rats and squi...
FRANK HALL
All of my pets are strays that have been saved from animal shelters and, just like your pets, my ani...
GREGORY POPOVICH
Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.
GAD ELMALEH
It's a good little drop for that young puppy to go. We've had animals dropped over the larger fence ...
DAN EVANS
Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the anim...
NORMAN BORLAUG
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
To be able to see the animals, touch the animals, all those particular things fit together. Our pens...
DAVE GLINIECKI
I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that a...
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI
I am taking care of many small animals. I also run pet shops and hospitals. This gives a balance bet...
HUANG HAILIANG
Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be ...
ARISTOTLE
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we c...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
I couldn't imagine a home without animals.
AMANDA BURTON
If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are loo...
PETER SINGER
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them...
PETER SINGER
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great e...
JOHN RAWLS
Many of the rescued animals will be brought to the Saline County facility to be rehabilitated and th...
ANN SANDERS
It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild...
TIPPI HEDREN
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheim...
DEVDUTT PATTANAIK
The animals would have had a painful death in shelters.
CHRIS LINK
I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for Go...
SAMUEL BECKETT
Too many of the findings that have been made in animals have been proven to be true for animals, but...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas abou...
YANN MARTEL
I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned...
CARRIE ANN INABA
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we d...
DIANE ACKERMAN
As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can g...
BERNADETTE PETERS
We are the first to ever publicly advertise we don't test on animals.
JOHN PAUL DEJORIA
By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't...
JOSEPH PILATES
We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of ...
RACHAEL RAY
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understand...
CARL SAGAN
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the powe...
THOMAS MALTHUS
I love animals. I just don't want to have a pet. That's OK, right? I would take a dog over a...
ERIN FOSTER
I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we t...
CAROLINE PAUL
Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes ha...
NATHAN WOLFE
We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name...
CéSAR CHáVEZ
I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I be...
PETER SINGER
Reversal is something that has been demonstrated in a number of different animals in a number of dif...
GEORGE M. CHURCH
I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
SAM SIMON
I worry about stuff like getting sick, home invasions, and how animals are in pain but can't tel...
CAZZIE DAVID
A lot of animals come to the shelter that are abused or starved. These animals will go to good homes...
ERIN SMITH
I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals a...
DICK VAN PATTEN
I think it will balance out the overall experience of Disney's Animal Kingdom. It is an incredible i...
KATHY ROGERS
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures...
EDWIN WAY TEALE
What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care f...
THOMAS FRENCH
I'm fascinated by animals and couldn't live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.
JILLIAN HERVEY
Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, bu...
RORY FREEDMAN
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are t...
MAHATMA GANDHI
Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To ...
SUSAN ESTRICH
It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn...
ED BALLS
We have the power to build a new consensus, which rejects killing as a method for achieving results....
NATHAN WINOGRAD
Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.
STEVE-O
If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can&...
JAMIE BLACKLEY
The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attenti...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI
The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being br...
MICHAEL GREGER
Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn'...
JOHN MILIUS

More Laura Mennell

I am still fairly new to the whole social media thing - I am definitely tweeting and Facebooking. It...
LAURA MENNELL
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's ...
LAURA MENNELL
The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continue...
LAURA MENNELL
I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a ...
LAURA MENNELL
When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, an...
LAURA MENNELL
I enjoy being in Toronto - there's lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods - but V...
LAURA MENNELL
Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfar...
LAURA MENNELL
I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprise...
LAURA MENNELL
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. ...
LAURA MENNELL
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegeta...
LAURA MENNELL
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my ha...
LAURA MENNELL
I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly un...
LAURA MENNELL
I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
LAURA MENNELL
Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders ...
LAURA
I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Doing the right thing has power.
LAURA LINNEY
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know...
LAURA ZISKIN
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
LAURA ZISKIN
You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
LAURA ZISKIN
For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
LAURA ZISKIN
What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and...
LAURA ZISKIN
I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I want...
LAURA ZISKIN
I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
LAURA WILKINSON
The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dive...
LAURA WILKINSON
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that...
LAURA WILKINSON
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
LAURA WILKINSON
I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is...
LAURA WILKINSON
I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I fe...
LAURA WILKINSON
I love overcoming challenges and fear.
LAURA WILKINSON
There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
LAURA WILKINSON
Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it ...
LAURA WILKINSON
There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people t...
LAURA WASSER
Many states favor joint custody.
LAURA WASSER
Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.
LAURA WASSER
For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, becau...
LAURA WASSER
Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going t...
LAURA WASSER
A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, ...
LAURA WASSER
I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions abou...
LAURA WASSER
Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake a...
LAURA WASSER
Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do reali...
LAURA WASSER
I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the r...
LAURA WASSER
Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorc...
LAURA WASSER
I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the as...
LAURA WASSER
One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husb...
LAURA WASSER
To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know o...
LAURA WASSER
Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and ...
LAURA WASSER
The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that you...
LAURA WASSER
If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really s...
LAURA WASSER
Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way....
LAURA WASSER
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law ...
LAURA WASSER
Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your ...
LAURA WASSER
Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that k...
LAURA WASSER
It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going ...
LAURA WADE
I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport...
LAURA WADE
I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quit...
LAURA WADE
Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wou...
LAURA WADE
It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?
LAURA WADE
Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've j...
LAURA WADE
'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bas...
LAURA WADE
I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting...
LAURA WADE
Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?
LAURA WADE
And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written...
LAURA WADE
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produ...
LAURA WADE
I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.
LAURA WADE
I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the op...
LAURA WADE
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever se...
LAURA WADE
I don't like writing with real people in mind.
LAURA WADE
I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like...
LAURA WADE
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
LAURA WADE
Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's ...
LAURA WADE
If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one ...
LAURA WADE
Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it become...
LAURA WADE
A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put...
LAURA WADE
I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted ima...
LAURA WADE
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was ...
LAURA WADE
I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
LAURA WADE
Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
LAURA VANDERVOORT
I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so muc...
LAURA VANDERVOORT
I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I con...
LAURA VANDERVOORT
I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19...
LAURA VANDERVOORT
I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i...
LAURA VANDERVOORT
I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
LAURA VANDERVOORT
I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genr...
LAURA VANDERVOORT
I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.
LAURA VANDERVOORT
I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is complete...
LAURA VANDERVOORT
A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in min...
LAURA VANDERVOORT
Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.
LAURA TROTT
I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to...
LAURA TROTT
I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall...
LAURA TROTT
Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
LAURA TROTT
For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad so...
LAURA TROTT
Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certa...
LAURA TROTT
When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if...
LAURA TROTT
The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of ...
LAURA TROTT
My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose c...
LAURA TROTT
I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
LAURA TROTT
I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium ...
LAURA TROTT
It's nice to actually look done-up, because people see a different side of me, the more girly si...
LAURA TROTT
I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrasse...
LAURA TROTT
It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think w...
LAURA TROTT
I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and no...
LAURA TROTT
I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it...
LAURA TROTT
Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I ...
LAURA TROTT
I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remembe...
LAURA TROTT
I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to t...
LAURA TROTT
I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everyt...
LAURA TROTT
People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of y...
LAURA TROTT
For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outsi...
LAURA TROTT
You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just we...
LAURA SPENCER
Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors.
LAURA SPENCER
When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well tha...
LAURA SPENCER
I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classe...
LAURA SPENCER
Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that t...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemi...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very mu...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
I climb mountains.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they li...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchi...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the ha...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with ...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
I love revenge.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you s...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its ow...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A me...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ...
LAURA ROBSON
I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to...
LAURA ROBSON
I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way to...
LAURA ROBSON
If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to f...
LAURA ROBSON
I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with fre...
LAURA ROBSON
Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
LAURA ROBSON
If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis tha...
LAURA ROBSON
I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Mi...
LAURA ROBSON
There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
LAURA ROBSON
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
LAURA RIDING
If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer yo...
LAURA RIDING
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma...
LAURA RIDING
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which...
LAURA RIDING
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...
LAURA RIDING
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I kn...
LAURA RIDING
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thi...
LAURA RIDING
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar...
LAURA RIDING
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for...
LAURA RIDING
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of our...
LAURA RIDING
I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic c...
LAURA RICKETTS
My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian wome...
LAURA RICKETTS
Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of a...
LAURA RICKETTS
I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ...
LAURA RICKETTS
When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent...
LAURA RICKETTS
We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
LAURA RICKETTS
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I...
LAURA RAMSEY
I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
LAURA RAMSEY
The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really.
LAURA RAMSEY
When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much k...
LAURA RAMSEY
You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
LAURA PREPON
Free love sounds great.
LAURA PREPON
I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belon...
LAURA PREPON
I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, &#...
LAURA PREPON
In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is ...
LAURA PREPON
When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything,...
LAURA PREPON
I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
LAURA PREPON
On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's ...
LAURA PREPON
I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you...
LAURA PREPON
There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
LAURA PREPON
The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't bel...
LAURA PREPON
Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
LAURA PREPON
I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
LAURA PREPON
For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there...
LAURA PREPON
I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
LAURA PREPON
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
LAURA PREPON
I'm the type of person that will do triple sessions in one day. I'll do Pilates, I'll do...
LAURA PREPON
I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I...
LAURA PREPON
They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome p...
LAURA PREPON
My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.
LAURA PREPON
I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
LAURA PREPON
I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
LAURA PREPON
For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row...
LAURA PREPON
And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
LAURA PREPON
Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara ...
LAURA OSNES
I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anyt...
LAURA OSNES
I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.
LAURA OSNES
Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every gir...
LAURA OSNES
I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I wou...
LAURA OSNES
I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I ...
LAURA OSNES
I don't have a gym membership. I usually do a bit of basic yoga or stretches at home or in my dr...
LAURA OSNES
As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
LAURA OSNES
If I can impact people with my music, that's what I want.
LAURA OSNES
'Bonnie and Clyde' was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part...
LAURA OSNES
That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
LAURA OSNES
I've never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at th...
LAURA OSNES
If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a peopl...
LAURA OSNES
My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New...
LAURA OSNES
Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that w...
LAURA OSNES
I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but...
LAURA OSNES