The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
Rachel Cusk
Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.
A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.
People seem to think of me as a goody-goody who never curses, but I can be very nasty if I'm pushed. Cross me too many times, and I'll never talk to you again.
I'm a member of a very complex and richly valued race.
Andre Braugher
We are a richly blessed nation; let's not squander that - one of the worst things we can do is not gratefully acknowledge our abundances.
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
Once I'm committed, I'm unafraid of the outcome.
Helmut Lang
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
Malcolm Gladwell
I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.
Malcolm Gladwell
It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
I love oral hygiene.
Eden Sher
I do a lot of vocal hygiene.
Lesley Garrett
I think hygiene is so important.
Tom Brady
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Time hygiene is about finding more time for ourselves: to think, to do what we like.
Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.
My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
I am such a goody-two-shoes.
Hunter Parrish
I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.
Erika Christensen
I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.
I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.
It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.
I'm expressive and animated.
Juliette Lewis
Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.
I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
I'm a suburban mom. I grew up in Oakland County, Michigan.
Ronna McDaniel
In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.
I try to be careful how much I sing about the suburban house or whatever.
Fear is unnecessary.
Jake LaMotta
Poverty is unnecessary.
Muhammad Yunus
Theology is unnecessary.
Stephen Hawking
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
Carrie Snow
In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.
Willis Polk
There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.
Alexa Ray Joel
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
I play every day. I had a bad back, but they fixed it.
Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.
Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
Any obsession is dangerous.
Christina Ricci
Dancing is my obsession. My life.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Without obsession, life is nothing.
John Waters
Women have this obsession with shoes.
Alexandra Paul
I think life's an irrational obsession.
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
The microscopic world became my obsession.
I like to look at the glass half full.
Abdullah II of Jordan
I'm very much a glass-half-full person.
Brian O'Driscoll
I'm very much a glass-is-half-full guy.
Jimmi Simpson
Once you drink one glass, you want another.
John Forsythe
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.'
They don't know they're living in a glass house.
You can't fool children.
Eric Metaxas
Diets are a fool's errand.
Evangeline Lilly
A fool is wise in his eyes.
King Solomon
Only a genius can play a fool.
Michael Rapaport
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
No one but a fool is always right.
I pity the fool who just gives up.
I do like my wine.
Christine McVie
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth comes out in wine.
Pliny the Elder
Wine is incredibly sexy.
Eric Trump
Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
Language is wine upon the lips.
Wine is connected to abundance.
I love to smile.
Inge de Bruijn
I have a smile 24/7.
Candis Cayne
A smile costs about $240.
Roma Downey
Smile, it's free therapy.
Douglas Horton
It's so hard not to smile.
Peace begins with a smile.
Even a smile is a good deed.
A symphony is no joke.
Johannes Brahms
Desegregation is a joke.
Nina Simone
Wearing heels is no joke.
Ryan McCartan
Yoga in America is a joke.
Bikram Choudhury
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
A joke's a very serious thing.
I'm not much of a joke writer.
Perception is reality.
Lee Atwater
Thought makes reality.
Vanna Bonta
Reality: What a concept!
Robin Williams
I don't watch reality TV.
Dave Attell
Reality is a sliding door.
Reality TV has taken over.
I enjoy reality television.
I love my mother.
Tori Spelling
I am a proud mother.
Michelle Phillips
I was a mother's boy.
Don Rickles
My mother is my hero.
Sofia Vassilieva
My mother is my hero.
I like being a mother.
My mother is a beauty.
A picture is a fact.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
In fact, I'm a geek.
Kelli Garner
I prefer fact to fiction.
Richard Attenborough
Dreams are a scientific fact.
Robyn Hitchcock
Belief creates the actual fact.
I think I'm a good fact finder.
Getting older is a fact of life.
I'm bad at math.
John Oates
My memory's bad!
Jeremy Sumpter
I'm bad at golf.
Seth MacFarlane
I am a bad dancer.
Vijay Sethupathi
I'm bad at baking.
I love playing bad.
I'm blonde and bad.
Fun is good.
Dr. Seuss
God is good.
Ty Dolla Sign
Ego is good.
Thomas Leonard
Make good art.
Neil Gaiman
Bling is good.
God is so good.
I was a good kid.