Thoralf Gilbrant Quotes & Sayings

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience. — Angelika Rust

If you want to be healthy and live to one hundred, do qigong. — Mehmet Oz

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else. — Anthony Hopkins

Back in the fifties, women were told to master the differences between oven cleaners and floor wax and special sprays for wood; today they're told to master the differences between toys that hone problem-solving skills and those that encourage imaginative play. This subtle shift in language suggests that playing with one's child is not really play but a job, just as keeping house once was. Buy Buy Baby is today's equivalent of the 1950s supermarket product aisle, and those shelves of child-rearing guides at the bookstore are today's equivalent of Good Housekeeping, offering women the possibility of earning a doctorate in mothering. — Jennifer Senior