Quotes & Sayings About International Women's Day 2015

We use the word "respect" to mean something a women shows a man, but not often something a man shows a woman. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up taking an acting class almost just to get rid of an arts requirement, but I wound up in this wonderful acting class with this teacher named Alma Becker who really saved my life. I was just kind of this knucklehead kid from DC and I was in and out of trouble all of the time. I took a theatre class and she really discovered something in me and I absolutely fell in love with it. — Jon Bernthal

A career in dance, however, was by no means even contemplated at this time. — Walter Terry

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too. — Adam Levine

A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses. — David McCullough

Trust only him who doubts. — Lu Xun

Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone ... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness. — Geneva Overholser

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. — James Stephens

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married. — Shelley Winters

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap. — Kid Rock

You cannot stop religion from evolving. — A. J. Jacobs

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there. — Donald Knuth