Glass Castle Poverty Quotes & Sayings

All women know that bridesmaid dresses are a secret plot if the devil. — Helena S. Paige

Only a flea of hope.. 'But fleas ain't easy to rid' -Meronym — David Mitchell

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts. — John Newbery

So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand. — Geraldine Brooks

Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast. — Terrence J

A person who really likes himself or herself has high self-esteem and therefore a positive self-concept. When you really like yourself in a particular role, you perform at your best in that role. — Brian Tracy

Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance. — Charles F. Glassman

when there doesn't seem to be enough time for all you hope to accomplish, must you give things up (sleep, income, a clean house), or can you learn to condense activities, to do more in less time, to "work smarter, not harder, — Mason Currey

Buying is an activity understood by economists. Shopping is a phenomenon of interest to anthropologists and sociologists. — Marc Gobe

I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta's policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but omitting Hatta from the Proclamation Text ... that is the action of a coward! — Sukarno

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean. — Ann Rule

So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world. — Pankaj Mishra

We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing. — Susan Glaspell