That Girl Quotes - Page 3

• I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

  Sara Paretsky

  Girl, Home, Kansas

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• I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.

  Warren G. Harding

  Girl, Climbing, Mines

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• After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it.

  Billy Wilder

  Girl, Stars, Real

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• Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

  Jimmy Wales

  Girl, People, Wikipedia

  "Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership". Foundation-l mailing list, lists.wikimedia.org. October 23, 2005.

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• We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.

  Louise Slaughter

  Girl, Sports, Self Esteem

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• Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

  Christina Aguilera

  Life, Girl, Reflection

  Song: Reflection, Album: Christina Aguilera

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• I think that we have to firstly accept ourselves the way we are. I do think that girls are told at an early age that straightening their hair is the right thing, whereas it's simply not. You need to shut down the negative energy and do what makes you feel good. What makes you feel good is what makes you beautiful!

  Maria Borges

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The only thing that ever really bothers me is that a lot of people think I'm that girl who hates your boyfriend. I'm really not that girl. Some of my friends' boyfriends are my best friends.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Hate, Thinking

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• When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through.

  Ian Mcewan

  Girl, Self, His Love

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• All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break. And besides, if the sisters are gone and only the beloved remains with his dense curls and his lips, how safe are you then? You have to have him or you will die if the sisters are gone with their listening ears and their feet to rub and their bodies to dress and their shared loneliness.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Girl, Loneliness, Heart

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• You're not that girl,' Cole said, sounding tired. 'Trust me, I've seen enough of them to know. Look. Don't cry. You're not that girl either.' 'Oh yeah? What girl am I?' 'I'll let you know when I figure it out. Just don't cry.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Tired, Looks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.273, Scholastic Inc.

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• I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Girl, Home, Years

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.133, Macmillan

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• I can’t tell you what that first song was about. Something about love and a boy and a girl… And this boy can think of nothing but holding that girl’s hand in the darkness... All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood.

  Jennifer Flackett

  Girl, Song, Boys

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• THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Girl, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.5, Hayes Barton Press

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• I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. Nothing, however, exits my mouth. How well do we really let ourselves know each other? There's a long quietness until I finally break it open. It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. In my case, I hand out a question to my friend.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Hands, Long

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Missing, Want

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She doesn’t usually back down that easily.” “Maybe she’s got class.” Eve snorted. “Trust me,” she said. “That girl’s got no class at all.

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Class, Trust Me

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.92, Penguin

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• Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Boys, Space

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• I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

  Harper Lee

  Girl, Play, People

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [to Inara] Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Rain, Good Luck

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Mom, Past

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• Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.

  Carolina Herrera

  Girl, Sexy, Confusion

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• I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.

  Christina Aguilera

  Girl, Hey, Pregnant

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• It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

  Grimes

  Girl, Kind, Pops

  "One to watch: Grimes". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

  Jason Mraz

  Girl, Heart, Letters

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