Rhotic Quotes & Sayings

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences ... not the satellites of men. — Howard Zinn

counted because things in my life had a way of disappearing on me, and I'd learned not to trust what I thought was there. What — Sara Zarr

I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't. — Jacki Weaver

A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship. — Patti Stanger

If I wore a low-cut dress or showed my cleavage or did lad's mags, people would make such a big deal. That has stopped me from doing it, but I would if it felt right. — Konnie Huq

Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work. — Randy West

You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine. — Rick Bragg

To write a book is a preposterously antisocial process involving months, if not years, of self-imposed misery as you become a monomaniacal hermit shunning all loved ones until the moment you finish what in your head is the greatest assemblage of written language since the Babylonians invented cuneiform. — Simon Goddard

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things. — John McWhorter

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements. — George W. S. Trow

Stay alive.
But she doesn't want to. She doesn't want to. — Amy Zhang

I think a any person who has a high profile job or who travels all the time or who has a lot of stress associated with their job can be difficult to be in a relationship with. — Drew Barrymore