Nancy Quotes - Page 3

• Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Running, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Kids, Disability, Painful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant work of Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman, Loic Wacquant, Nancy Fraser, Tony Judt, and others.

  Henry Giroux

  Numbers, Archives, Brilliant

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy."

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan. But anything that's new, as long as it's good I enjoy it.

  George Thorogood

  Rocks, Long, Good Movie

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

  Noomi Rapace

  Teenager, Hair, Blonde

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• Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Issues, Firsts, First Lady

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• Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.

  Katharine McPhee

  Heart, Voice, Negative

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• When I was 12 years old, I read Nancy Drew mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

  Joyce Maynard

  Girl, Horse, Book

  "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

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• The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

  Imelda Marcos

  Years, California, Philippines

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Members of the Senate are considering a tax on cosmetic surgery. When they brought it up, you should have seen the look that Nancy Pelosi's face tried to make.

  Conan O'Brien

  Should Have, Looks, Cosmetics

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• Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.

  Johnny Carson

  Hair, Down And, Broke

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• Nancy, an attractive titian blond, grinned up at her friend.

  Carolyn Keene

  Attractive

  Carolyn Keene (1930). “Nancy Drew 04: The Mystery at Lilac Inn”, p.5, Penguin

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• Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.

  Michael Chabon

  Girl, Drunk, Fool

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!

  Carolyn Keene

  Romance, Detective Work, Tonight

  Carolyn Keene (1930). “Nancy Drew 03: The Bungalow Mystery”, p.61, Penguin

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• Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because no one sniped at my sister but me, and Mark echoed with a stern "Chill, dude." Phin was unperturbed. "Those books were highly unrealistic. Do you have any idea how much brain damage a person would have if she were hit on the head and drugged with chloroform that often?

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Book, Cutting, Thinking

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• As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

  Colin Meloy

  Saint, Benediction, Patron

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• I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Girl, Reading, Home

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Mona knocked at the wrong time. “Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- ” Mona shouted through the door. “Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up.” Michael grinned at Jon. “My roommate. Brace yourself.” Seconds later, Mona burst through the doorway with a tray of coffee and croissants. “Hi! I’m Nancy Drew! You must be the Hardy Boys!

  Armistead Maupin

  Coffee, Boys, Doors

  Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage

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• I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

  Tom Vilsack

  Party, Thinking, Faces

  "Central Casting" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 29, 2006.

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• Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan have a lot in common - they're both smarter than their husbands and both consulted the stars for guidance, Nancy with astrology and Hillary with Barbra Streisand.

  Bill Maher

  Stars, Husband, Astrology

  Bill Maher (1996). “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That?: Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits”, Villard Books

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• I'm the gangsta Nancy Sinatra.

  Lana Del Rey

  Trust No One, Gangsta

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• On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes of the magnificent public garden of the city of Nancy make the words reverberate; coupling, condensation, grignardization. Moreover, their clothes stay impregnated with strong and characteristic odours; we follow the initiates of Hermes by their scent. In such an environment, how is it possible not to be productive?

  Victor Grignard

  Strong, Science, Garden

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• We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.

  Michael Steele

  Wind, Needs, Congress

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• Nancy Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet - we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that.

  Michele Bachmann

  Years, Trying, Needs

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