Diane Capri Quotes

You're a man, you want to do a thing, you do it. You haven't the thousand obstacles a woman has in front of her. ~ Diane Capri

Trouble. I felt my muscles tense with anticipation and anxiety. Sought understanding. ~ Diane Capri

No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors. ~ Diane Capri

For twenty-four hours, she'd been running on her standard triple A's: ambition, adrenaline, and anxiety. Add two gut-wrenching plane rides on less than two hours sleep and her nerves, like her muscles, were screaming. None of this, she knew was visible even to the keenest observer. And she meant to keep it that way. ~ Diane Capri

Reacher was the kind of guy who solved all problems as permanently as possible. ~ Diane Capri

The mind can break and be lost forever, but if the will breaks it comes back stronger. ~ Diane Capri

Promise in haste, repent at leisure, ~ Diane Capri

It's not that parents love their children less than in generations past. It's that they no longer receive consistent societal support for the belief that parenting is their highest priority ... TV messages championed rather then detracted from wholesome ideals ... maybe "the old days" before the societal changes of the '60s weren't perfect, but they allowed a bevy of family-friendly forces to surround parents with encouragement for their mission ... ~ Diane Medved

The scriptures serve as guideposts to keep us on the right path, and prayer is our helpline when we have lost our way or need to be redirected. ~ Diane Goold

I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope and expect that you will have an idea and bring it to the table. But the way I really want to work is that together we're going to have a third idea that is better than either of our ideas.' ~ Diane Paulus

Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe. ~ Diane Arbus

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards. ~ Diane Abbott

The best moment for a box of chocolates was before you bit into one. Once you knew it was coconut, the magic was over. ~ Diane Hammond

We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars,
watching Cassiopeia mount her throne
and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South.
I would say, "I have a secret to tell you."
And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly,
you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.
~ Diane Ackerman

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother. ~ Diane Cilento

I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life ~ Diane Di Prima

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. ~ Diane Setterfield

If we found a ticket to Disneyland would you think we should arrest Mickey Mouse? ~ Diane L. Randle

I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important ... But I think makeup and fashion should not be taken that seriously ... You should have fun making up for a party. You should have fun wearing a sexy dress. When you're beautiful it should give you pleasure. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Books are borrowed minds, and because they capture the soul of a people, they explore and celebrate all it means to be human. ~ Diane Ackerman

Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion. ~ Diane Ackerman

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla. ~ Diane Ackerman

She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it. ~ Diane Setterfield

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel. ~ Diane Lane

Out of the blue, Paul reported feeling bouts of calm euphoria, a mystical sense of all's-right-with-his-life-and-the-universe, a bright future in sight ... I knew well the state of vigorous calm he meant, a frequent visitor throughout my own life. [p. 290] ~ Diane Ackerman

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality. ~ Diane Ravitch

You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class ~ Lani Diane Rich

He came back the next day, and the next, and the day after that, and they argued. The arguments always started about the binding itself, but then they began to stray out into more interesting topics
the relationships and interrelationships in their families, the politics that went on, and the doings of the kingdoms and lordships of the world; and finally, about themselves, or rather, each other. The arguments started early and ended late: it was almost improper.
After about three days of this, T'Thelaih realized that she was going to have to be bound to this man, just to have the leisure to argue properly with him. ~ Diane Duane

Our passions don't just compel us; they can also heal us. ~ Diane Guerrero

Did any agents ever put Diane Ladd up for some of the great parts, even though she always got great reviews? No! But do they put up the girlfriend of the studio executive who's gonna do them a favor later? You betcha. ~ Diane Ladd

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive. ~ Diane Cilento

A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing. ~ William Eggleston

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away. ~ Diane Arbus

It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me. ~ Diane Drake

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films. ~ Diane Lane

We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. ~ Diane Setterfield

When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it. ~ Diane Mott Davidson

I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you. ~ Diane Paulus

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. ~ Diane Ackerman

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story. ~ Diane Setterfield

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer. ~ Diane Ackerman

I have to put the worst of her into her. ~ Diane Williams

I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older, I would take it as a compliment. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. ~ Diane Wakoski

It's more important to be healthy and of good spirit than it is to be thin, just as it's more important to be an attractive woman than a fashionable one. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Diane felt a gentle hand touch her own, a sympathetic pat. Dawn had both hands on her coffee cup. Diane looked back down at her own hand, and saw the final quick motion of a gray-gloved hand disappearing under her table. ~ Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

There's a quality of legend about freaks.
Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. ~ Diane Arbus

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it. ~ Diane Wakoski

rewarded with another drag on her ~ Diane M. Dickson

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did? ~ Diane Samuels

Stop protecting your heart. Or at least give me the chance to win it. I'm scared here, too. I'm taking the same risks you are." He took a breath. "Can't you see that what we have is real? Can't you see we belong together? Where am I ever going to find another girl who can give back as good as I give? Who laughs with me and makes me crazy? ~ Diane Darcy

Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women! ~ Medea Benjamin

Emotional wellness is a First World luxury. ~ Diane Guerrero

What did Diane know about this? What was her connection? Could she be the mastermind behind the blond man and the man in the tan jacket holding a deerskin suitcase and maybe even Jackie's mother's strange behavior? ~ Joseph Fink

In the end, it's the little things that matter most. They explode with importance. ~ Diane Rivoli