Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
~By Arlie Hochschild ~
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
~By Johannes Brahms ~
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
~By Corita Kent ~
As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.
~By Nick Clooney ~
I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.
~By Jeff Sessions ~
It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.
~By Don Johnson ~
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
~By M. H. Abrams ~
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.
~By Larry Hagman ~
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
~By Paul Valery ~
This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
~By Aaron Klug ~
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
~By Georg Brandes ~
I'm hoping that with the high profile that the Go-Go's are going to have over the next year, that if anybody is interested in what else I do, I'll have something I can say that I do.
~By Kathy Valentine ~
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
~By Joseph Hume ~
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.
~By George Murray ~
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
~By George Crumb ~
I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
~By Eugene Ionesco ~
You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
~By Murray Kempton ~
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.
~By Terry Zwigoff ~
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.
~By Pieter Zeeman ~
My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them.
~By Lynda Carter ~
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
~By Alan Thicke ~
I got arrested for signing autographs. Signing a little girl's autograph got me arrested.
~By Michael Taylor ~
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
~By C. Wright Mills ~
The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
~By Karl Lehmann ~
If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
~By Phil Collins ~
I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.
~By John Boehner ~
Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.
~By Tim Sample ~
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.
~By Joschka Fischer ~
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
~By William J. Brennan, Jr. ~
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
~By Bruce Davison ~
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
~By Tom Brokaw ~
A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.
~By Susannah York ~
That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.
~By Alonzo Mourning ~
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
~By George Eliot ~
I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest.
~By George Murphy ~
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~
I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself.
~By Josh Duhamel ~
Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.
~By Ric Keller ~
I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.
~By Phil Lesh ~
Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.
~By Frederick Sanger ~
I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.
~By Joseph Jarman ~
It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.
~By Robert Nozick ~
I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.
~By Howie Carr ~
What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
~By Mark Spitz ~
I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.
~By Debi Thomas ~
Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.
~By Lisa Leslie ~
What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.
~By Tom Allen ~
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
~By Dick Gregory ~
There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
~By Jonathan Shapiro ~
It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.
~By Holly Near ~
Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
~By Jack Irons ~
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.
~By Kelly Jones ~
The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.
~By Francis X. Clines ~
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
~By Charles Kettering ~
Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.
~By Li Peng ~
Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.
~By Peter O'Toole ~
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
~By Alice Walker ~
I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
~By Jose Marti ~
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
~By Charley Pride ~
And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.
~By Adrian Lyne ~
This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
~By Ann Druyan ~
Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
~By Elia Kazan ~
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.
~By Sue Kelly ~
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.
~By Hesiod ~
You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
~By Robert De Niro ~
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
~By George Byron ~
If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
~By Peggy Noonan ~
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
~By Jim Garrison ~
There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.
~By Mark Edwards ~
It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
~By Denzel Washington ~
The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.
~By Daniel Hannan ~
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
~By Tony Blair ~
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
~By Nora Ephron ~
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