The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there … - Rachel Johnson

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Rachel Johnson

The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.

Age, Constant, Daughter, Interchangeable, Mother, Wardrobe

Same Author Quotes

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

Doubt, Heart, Paris, Thing, Travel

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

Parent, Presence, Reliving, Teenage, Worse, Years

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

Believe, Distance, National, Straight, Two

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

Excitement, Eye, Home, Real, Used

When I'm called unkind. . . that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

Cuts, Cutting, Say, Say Anything, Unkind

Similar Quotes

Derek Blasberg

Often times if you're bored, the other person is probably bored too.

Bored, Person, Probably, Times

Gordon Brown

. . . the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early

Challenges, Climate, Effects, Faces, Stern, Threatens

Robert Staughton Lynd

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Integrity, Mean, Vices, Avoidance, Attract, Achieve

David Limbaugh

It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony while purporting to dampen them and for dividing our society along racial, gender, and economic lines while claiming to unite us.

Accountability, Flames, Gender, Liberal, Lines, Politicians

Dave Pelzer

One Child's courage to survive

Children, Courage, Survive