Gentlewoman Rules Quotes & Sayings

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. — John Ortberg

Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be. — Mandy Hale

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean. — Simon Sinek

Brackets come in various shapes, types and names:
1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses)
2 square brackets [which we call square brackets, and the Americans call brackets] — Lynne Truss

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees. — Jennifer Granholm

I hated you," she continued, "because you have done nothing more than abide by rules that every gentlewoman follows every day of her life. Yet for this prosaic feat, you are feted and cosseted as if you were a hero." She felt nothing as she spoke, but still her voice shook. Her hands were trembling, too. "I hate that if a woman missteps once, she is condemned forever, and yet the men who follow you can tie a simple ribbon to their hats after years of debauchery, and pass themselves off as upright pillars of society. — Courtney Milan

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. — John Jay Chapman

Ability is active power, or power to perform. — Noah Webster

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie. — Allison Janney

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music. — Carrie Brownstein

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it. — Joyce Carol Oates

Life itself is an art form. — Tyree Guyton

Do you know the anecdote about Rubens? He was serving Holland as Ambassador to Spain and used to spend the afternoon in the royal gardens before his easel. One day a jaunty member of the Spanish Court passed and remarked, 'I see that the diplomat amuses himself sometimes with painting,' to which Rubens replied, 'No, the painter amuses himself sometimes with diplomacy! — Irving Stone

At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on. — Bill Gates

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary. — Donald Rumsfeld