Construes Def Quotes & Sayings

With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard. — Jennifer Gilmore

Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation. — Bonnie Marcus

she clutched her purse and was completely composed, gracefully accepting people's sympathies, but when they started to shovel the dirt over old dick's coffin she began to weep, and her grief was strong enough to chase the sparrows from the trees. — Alice Hoffman

Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime. — Bill Dedman

I have spent a lot of time studying the issue of relationships, how I grew up, my parents' influence on me. I've talked to a therapist,; I've looked inward spiritually at myself, and what it seems to come down to is that I'm a Sagittarius. Please don't make me reveal more than that. It's tough enough as it is. — Garry Shandling

My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop. — Tim Gane

Men are not realists - only women are. — Mae West

Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences ... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights ... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved. — Gary L. Francione

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. — George Eliot

I don't feel I have an alter ego. — Dita Von Teese

If you feel all damp and lonely like a mushroom, find the thick, creamy soup of joyfulness and just dive into it in order to make life tastier — Munia Khan

such a short time. I am about to tell our barker, — Michelle Moran

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level. — Ruth Reichl

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways. — Ann Demeulemeester

It's a rare thing to be with another person and not feel an obligation to fill every second with talk. — Jessica Park