Glad Quotes - Page 8

• I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

  Alice Walker

  Knowledge, Thinking, Knows

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

  Robert Jarvik

  Dad, Doctors, Medicine

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyerak, Imaeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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• Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Nice, Fall

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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• I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

  John Buchan

  Jobs, Work, Would Be

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• Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Character, Eye, Men

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• As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Benefits, Invention, Share

  "It's the little things", www.pbs.org. 2002.

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• Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Struggle, Men, Parent

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• I'm glad I'm not a politician.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Politician

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• If you had asked me moment, as a lawyer, I would have said I would rather have had a male Democrat on the court. Like most lawyers , I love to win. But I was glad to see O'Connor because she made me normal. Just the fact that she was there with a soprano voice and a ruffley collar made my physical presence less weird and less fraught.

  Linda Hirshman

  Winning, Sopranos, Lawyer

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• Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

  Deborah Bull

  Careers, Dancing, Ballet

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• While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Voice, Government, Kuwait

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• Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

  Drew Curtis

  Exercise, Media, People

  "Fark's Drew Curtis On How "News" Isn't News". Interview with Brian Montopoli, www.cbsnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• God, I'm glad I'm not me.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song!

  Philip Doddridge

  Song, Heart, Voice

  Hymns,'Hark, the Glad Sound' (published 1755).

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• I should be glad of loneliness      And hours that go on broken wings,A thirsty body, a tired heart      And the unchanging ache of things,If I could make a single song      As lovely and as full of light,As hushed and brief as a falling star      On a winter night.

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Stars, Loneliness

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.31, Рипол Классик

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• When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.

  Willem de Kooning

  Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking

  ART news, Volume 47, No. 9, January 1949.

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• I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Blessing, Awards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Humor, Love Is

  "A Comic Sweet as Punch". www.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2005.

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• It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

  Lucy Stone

  Two, Victory, Wish

  Letter to Susan B. Anthony in 1891. "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony" by Ida Husted Harper, 1898.

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• Sexy for me is a curvy woman - doesn't have to be skinny, which I hate anyway. I'm glad [the fashion industry] is changing slowly a little bit now to get more into the boobs and hips again.

  Heidi Klum

  Sexy, Fashion, Hate

  Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Special Interview, 1998.

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• I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

  Henry Rollins

  Acting, Actors, I Can

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• Death by hanging... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

  Hans Frank

  Thinking, Lasts, Months

  "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1995.

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• I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.

  David Irving

  Believe, Thinking, Survivor

  "The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel " by David Irving, www.ihr.org. 1988.

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• I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

  Willie Nelson

  Running, Angel, Night

  "The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes". Book by Willie Nelson and Larry McMurtry, 2003.

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• Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people look at some of the work that's been done by people who have been there. But that's not to say that we will not be very glad at the day that conditions permit the closure of Guantanamo and the trying of its inhabitants or for their release.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Writing, People, Trying

  Remarks With British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw At Blackburn Town Hall, Blackburn, England, April 1, 2006.

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