“You can't invent yourself as you maunder on. Your fabrications aren't going to impress the blood test, the urinalysis or the chest X-ray. Science is not amused.”
"On Being Embarrassed" (p. 139)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)
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American critic, writer, and commentator 1939–2008Related quotes
“If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly
Source: Obsidian Butterfly
Natacha Rambova (1897–1966) American film personality and fashion designer
On celebrity, p. 117
Photoplay: "Wedded and Parted" (December 1922)
Nicholas Sparks book True Believer
Doris McClellan, Chapter 3, p. 54
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)
“It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself”
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter
“Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?”
Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
Daniel Goleman (1946) American psychologist & journalist
Daniel Goleman (1995) cited in: John O. Dozier (2010) The Weeping, the Window, the Way. p. 130
Liza Tarbuck (1964) English actress and television and radio presenter
Asked whether things are meant, while been interviewed by The Independent on Sunday, May 25, 2003 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20030525/ai_n12738402