FastSaying

I’ve swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I’m still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited by sixty-seven moons.


Amy Liptrot

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

They say I am powerful,
They say I am eloquent,
They say I am wealthy.

But I am...
AYUSHMAN JAMWAL I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand.
CATHERINE MADSEN You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zo...
LIGHTS POXLIETNER We are built with a passion in our heart for the things we are meant to do.
LIGHTS POXLIETNER Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you but by the light that shines within...
LOLLY DASKAL Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
OMAR N. BRADLEY Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship
OMAR BRADLEY We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am surrounded by great people.
RAFAEL DOS ANJOS It was an honor to perform at the Folly Theatre, surrounded by so many amazing dancers.
CHRIS PAGE I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting y...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams...
H.C. ARTMANN My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plast...
JEFF KINNEY When I’m with you, even my past seems like a bad dream,” he says. “I’ve sat on this hill a h...
KATIE MCGARRY I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
JORGE LUIS BORGES I don’t know about you, but I’ve got plans for next Thursday. And I’m not in the mood to have ...
DEBORAH BLAKE I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive th...
MARTHA REEVES I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our ...
ANNE LAMOTT And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, Th...
JOHN MILTON Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing sh...
SOURCE UNKNOWN We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
OMAR BRADLEY We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
OMAR NELSON BRADLEY Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one those principal lights or natural mediums by whi...
SIR ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, 7TH EARL OF SHAFTESBURY Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually...
SLOANE CROSLEY The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of gree...
CAMRYN MANHEIM I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?
MITCH ALBOM He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.
UNKNOWN There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in light...
MARILYN MONROE I’m an Exquisite Black Queen! I like, love, and celebrate myself. I don’t fit society’s beauty...
STEPHANIE LAHART When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under...
KEN JENNINGS All of me lights up when you are near and I am not even plugged in.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all l...
BRAM STOKER She imagined herself whirling breathlessly beneath the flashing lights of some impossibly chic Manha...
FRANCINE PASCAL I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and fli...
MARY BALOGH Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been s...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH i have what i have and i am happy i’ve lost what i’ve lost and i am still happy - outlook
RUPI KAUR You still have to pay the teacher and have the lights turned on.
AL MIJARES They did a lot of the prep work for lights when they renovated the stadium the last time. There will...
DAVE HEEKE I turned the Gloucester Christmas lights on and our local Newent lights on, so everyone recognises m...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
LAURYN HILL In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.
KING VIDOR I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Flickering lights
anonymous doors
my heart escaping in drips
i'm still waking up
MAGGIE STIEFVATER There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it w...
MARILYN MONROE The lights are all out everywhere.
IRIS CHENAULT They had the lights on and everything, guiding us into the taxiway.
CAPT. DELVIN GENENBACHER People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be s...
IMELDA MARCOS A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in...
PICO IYER I'm very familiar with getting traffic lights. I'm very successful in getting traffic lights.
BRIAN MICHAELS She carried a thousand lights inside her heart, and a thousand lights carried her.
VATSAL SURTI Red lights, green lights, stop n' go jive
Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.
BILLY SQUIER People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to ...
IMELDA MARCOS Sam is one of those people who lights up a room. He's an absolute inspiration. He definitely leads b...
DAVID CHERRY Come, we burn daylight, ho! Nay, that's not so. I mean, sir, in delay We waste our light...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're...
BUDDY RICH I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights b...
NADIA ALI I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is th...
WALKER PERCY Endings are like a string of Christmas lights. As time passes, one by one great things eventually di...
ANGELA PAYNE Several passing motorists tried to warn him by honking their horns and flashing their lights, ... An...
FRED KLEIN It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me...
COCO CHANEL But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you...
BUDDY RICH I thought Stewart Zimmerman played lights out.
JASON BOWEN I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart ...
ANNIE ALI Not to run excuses out, but I had it off the bat, lost it in the lights, it came out of the lights, ...
LARRY WALKER ...I've always idealized women I've loved - they all fell short, save one - the one God chose for me...
JOHN GEDDES I love to be where you are, something in me lights up when I am with you and I just love it
SOTONYE ANGA But then my father was transferred to New York, and ... I knew this was it. I saw the bright lights,...
AMERICAN THEATRE But then my father was transferred to New York, and ... I knew this was it. I saw the bright lights,...
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE A fool is surrounded by blessings, but is chained by folly and thus cannot reach them. A wise person...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I’m afraid they’re not coming.” Abby said fearfully. “Our parents, our teachers – everyone...
NATHAN REESE MAHER You're not mesmerized by the lights and can actually see the stars. You're getting back to your orig...
SAFFET CATOVIC If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determi...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH He certainly helped, by our lights, to make it a more truthful understanding of what happened, and t...
ERIC UELAND Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.
ANDY WARHOL O thou undaunted daughter of desires! / By all thy dower of lights and fires; / By all the eagle in ...
RICHARD CRASHAW Anytime there is frustration, it lights a fuse for anger.
EPHREM FERNANDEZ The stadium wasn't the best, and the lights weren't the best. Wallis hit the ball by the lights. And...
BRUCE SUTTER Imagine scoring a touchdown and the Northern Lights in the shopping center lights up and comes into ...
DAVID MURPHY I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing ...
JOHN HUNTER Lights shine more brightly at Ford, but they go out overnight.
LEON MANDEL What can I do? I don't like it, but what can I do? You gotta have lights.
VALERIE MILLER Through creative actions, both the Winter of Our Discontent and Lights Out Chicago will press for th...
JOEL GULLEDGE Thanks for turning off the lights... and so far... it's your problem, you are getting in trouble... ...
DEYTH BANGER The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along t...
GEORGE ROBERT SIMS One of a parent’s most important tasks is teaching their children how to communicate effectively a...
BY FAMOUS Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER They shot the lights out.
ELLEN ALLEN Turn Your Lights Down Low.
LAURYN HILL the lights fade to black.
SEX AND THE CITY We see green lights everywhere.
JACQUES ROGGE Lights get extinguished, darkness doesn't.
REMAN BALA It was lights, camera, inaction.
TERRY GILLIAM Today they shot lights out.
GAIL HARTIGAN I’m a realist,” I replied stubbornly, “not a romantic. Romantics
are always disappointed....
AMANDA HOWELLS People are always asking me when I’m going to retire. Why should I? I’ve got it two ways - I’m...
GEORGE F. BURNS We have gotten nothing but positive feedback for the lights. The audience likes turning the house li...
KATY MCKINNEY When the asteroid hits the big ball of lights, flares will go off and all the other lights will go o...
JACK DEVENNEY Beautiful thing is: when i am afraid of the dark, and it surrounds me, the smallest of lights can ma...
SHAHAFYEFET

More Amy Liptrot

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The...
AMY GRANT It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old...
AMY GRANT You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea...
AMY GRANT Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we pla...
AMY GRANT The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
AMY GRANT Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd ...
AMY GRANT I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's somethin...
AMY GRANT Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much ...
AMY GRANT I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced...
AMY GRANT There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
AMY GRANT I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just e...
AMY GRANT There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature...
AMY GRANT The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
AMY GRANT But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with comp...
AMY GRANT I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a goo...
AMY GRANT Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the C...
AMY GRANT Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect,...
AMY GRANT Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
AMY GRANT Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends...
AMY GRANT Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's sh...
AMY GRANT I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
AMY PURDY I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine ...
AMY POEHLER Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi...
AMY BLOOM Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conqu...
AMY CHUA Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel...
AMY GRANT My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset...
AMY BLOOM Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
AMY WINEHOUSE These people are the air I breathe and the blood I bleed. They are my courage. I will not let them d...
AMY EWING I think you can do anything you put your mind to
AMY EWING It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It w...
AMY EWING Violet’s eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, “What is wrong with these people?
AMY EWING Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until...
AMY EWING Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...
AMY LOWELL I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined ...
AMY CHUA In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares...
AMY POEHLER The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters ...
AMY MCTEAR It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a ...
AMY PURDY After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off...
AMY YASBECK Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll...
AMY HECKERLING Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz ...
AMY WINEHOUSE Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and...
AMY ALCOTT Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
AMY VANDERBILT Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If w...
AMY VANDERBILT I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl...
AMY VANDERBILT Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior....
AMY VANDERBILT When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
AMY RYAN Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power an...
AMY CUDDY Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put i...
AMY HECKERLING If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
AMY GRANT My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became T...
AMY TAN My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
AMY JACKSON It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks...
AMY VANDERBILT We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT They just looked up and there she was.
AMY VANDERBILT All books are either dreams or swords.
AMY LOWELL Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
AMY LOWELL My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in ...
AMY ADAMS Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I hav...
AMY ADAMS I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I...
AMY WINEHOUSE When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smi...
AMY GRANT In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
AMY LOWELL All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
AMY LOWELL For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
AMY LOWELL There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing O...
AMY LOWELL For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...
AMY LOWELL You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
AMY LOWELL Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind...
AMY LOWELL I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...
AMY LOWELL Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo...
AMY TAN We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change ...
AMY TAN Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or sooth...
AMY GERSTLER Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his ...
AMY SEDARIS Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ...
AMY PLUM God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el...
AMY CARMICHAEL Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were ...
AMY SEDARIS You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
AMY BLOOM However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...
AMY POEHLER I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ...
AMY POEHLER I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving ...
AMY ENGEL Share your voice and your heart. Listen to how it falls in with the cosmic symphony. Let it be imper...
AMY MCTEAR You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
AMY TAN Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
AMY LOWELL If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
AMY TAN In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
AMY TAN Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
AMY TAN We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappines...
AMY CHUA I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aeri...
AMY JACKSON Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a...
AMY TAN I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...
AMY POEHLER I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my...
AMY SEDARIS As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...
AMY POEHLER When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumst...
AMY TAN People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.&...
AMY TAN My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was ...
AMY TAN It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
AMY TAN I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what ...
AMY TAN I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ...
AMY TAN I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to ...
AMY TAN There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being ri...
AMY TAN I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate obse...
AMY TAN My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's b...
AMY TAN I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
AMY TAN Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu...
AMY TAN I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the sam...
AMY TAN No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems fro...
AMY TAN I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what'...
AMY TAN Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...
AMY TAN God, life changes faster than you think.
AMY TAN A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them '...
AMY CHUA Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around...
AMY WINEHOUSE Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
AMY SEDARIS I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someo...
AMY SEDARIS You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y...
AMY SEDARIS I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak...
AMY SEDARIS I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
AMY SEDARIS But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the...
AMY BLOOM People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Na...
AMY BLOOM I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
AMY SMART I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are r...
AMY POEHLER I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ...
AMY WALDMAN And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...
AMY TAN I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting cl...
AMY HEMPEL My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with...
AMY CHUA I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. An...
AMY ADAMS Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
AMY GRANT My dad is dead. And as I type this, by the window, on the rainy day, I am alive, yes. I am living. B...
AMY FUSSELMAN If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are exp...
AMY CARLSON