E. L. Simpson Quotes

When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today! Thank you!'

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

You change with the guys you date.

I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.

Isn't it weird that I'm getting all emotionable?

To be my man, you have to put up with a lot. I toot under the sheets, I spend a lot of money and I can belch the ABCs.

I can’t wait to have more kids. I love being pregnant. I have such an incredible connection with myself and with my body that I’ve never had before.

Labor is really going to hurt.

It's like carrying a bowling ball! Almost done.

It's not good to throw back scotch with a new fetus.

Fried Oreos. What were we talking about before? That's pregnancy-brain for ya! Ha ha ha ha!

What if I accidentally hit somebody? Because my dad took one of his friends golfing, and it was, like, one of his first times and he knocked out a duck. Like, I'm scared that's going to happen.

I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.

I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative.

I always wonder if what I'm wearing will be something that people would compliment, or want to wear. I don't ever get ready just for myself, ever.

I collect lucky pennies that I find on the ground. I keep them in a Ziploc bag.

It's important for country fans to know that I'm not just trying to come in and take their money for a CD.

I don't ever wanna come across too intimidating, so as long as I look like you can come up and give me a hug, that's good.

Everybody is a dumb blonde at heart.

I have to go... drop some kids in the pool.

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.

I would never invite cameras into my life again.

There is no perfect man! I think I'm meant to have many soulmates.

Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.

I am not the type of person who believes everything she reads, but I like to look at photos and see what people are wearing.

There are moments when I would love to fall asleep with my head on somebody's shoulder, just because I was so used to that for so long.

I surround myself with love and look forward to being in love.

I've done four movies. I've done seven albums. So I feel like music has always been a part of my life; acting is something I'm learning.

I beat myself up in the studio because I know that a lot of people are expecting me to fail.

I never want to hurt anyone's feelings, so I used to let people walk all over me. But now, especially in my career, I'm definitely more confident in my ideas.

For me, mood is something you have to ignore. I try to put myself in that position when I'm shooting and try to react the way I would. I try not to play funny if it doesn't call for that.

I don't know anything about the business side, but I know it's a very, very expensive decision to make, to put production on hold to make the story as good as possible.

People ask me if I would shoot and kill people, and I don't think I would.

I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

For small businesses, regulatory burdens can be overwhelming.

In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.