Liz Quotes

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.

Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.

There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

You are bigger than your circumstances.

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

We have a show tonight. I've never missed a show. Not even the time I had that virus they kept saying only raccoons get.

Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.

If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.

What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

Success creates opportunities for other people.

Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence.

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me.

Who's got two thumbs, speaks limited French and hasn't cried once today? This moi.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.

... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.

Charge hell with a bucket of water.

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.

I'm a fighter through and through. I don't give up. I have a strong heart and I will push until there's nothing left in me.

It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

I already have a drink. Do you think he'd buy me mozzarella sticks?

Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away; cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.

There ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party 'cause a Liz Lemon party is mandatory!

A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.