- Masculine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ale Quotes
A small, varied set of reflections.
This is a modest, loosely connected collection, grounded mainly in a historical comparison of the scale of wartime scientific effort between two countries. Other entries touch briefly on film ratings and the kinds of scripts actors look for. Related quotes appear in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope Cruz... but I'm a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always drawn to strong female leads, so that's what drew me to 'Lost Girl.' I was a 'Buffy' fan and watched it with friends every week. I was also a big fan of 'Alias' when that was on - they both had strong female leads, and that's what draws me in the most.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
- Female Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don't really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can't make them.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020