Totenberg Nina Quotes & Sayings

Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy. — Nina Totenberg

What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not. — Nina Totenberg

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. — Nina Totenberg

I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day. — Alice Waters

If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump. — Nina Totenberg

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public. — Nina Totenberg

Laura, that dress is not suitable for today, I'm afraid. It's only a small dinner party," I said, hastily stuffing it into the abyss of her wardrobe in exchange for a simple, undecorated blue dress, which would, as Laura passionately claimed, "accentuate her sapphire orbs so Mr. Edwards could not look away." I sincerely hoped she meant her eyes. — Tarun Shanker

Did all women married to well-known men struggle for recognition? — Nancy Horan

I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September. — Lisa Snowdon

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court. — Nina Totenberg

[On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world. — Nina Totenberg

Everyone in my family is a hero to me. — Christy Carlson Romano

If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders. — Geraldine Laybourne

I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment. — Nina Totenberg

[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will. — Nina Totenberg

They both loved piano music and were convinced that Beethoven's Sonata No. 32 was the absolute pinnacle in the history of music. And that Wilhelm Backhaus's unparalleled performance of the sonata for Decca set the interpretive standard. — Haruki Murakami

Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we came back to the sun deck, the party talk had swung around to the bones found at the end of the street. Carey was saying the police had been to ask her if there was anything she remembered that might help to identify the bones as her husband's. "I told them," she was saying, "that that rascal had run off and left me, not been killed. For weeks after he didn't come back, I thought he might walk back through that door with those diapers. You know," she told Aubrey parenthetically, "he left to get diapers for the baby and never came back." Aubrey nodded, perhaps to indicate understanding or perhaps because he'd already heard this bit of Lawrenceton folklore. — Charlaine Harris

I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook. — Daniel Woodrell