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Lynn Fontanne: Warm the pot...

Lynn Fontanne: Warm the pot...

Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in,...

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Julia Roberts: I wouldn't do...

Julia Roberts: I wouldn't do...

I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes off is a...

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Kathe Kollwitz: Genius can probably...

Kathe Kollwitz: Genius can probably...

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count...

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Jinger Heath: Don't do anything...

Jinger Heath: Don't do anything...

Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can...

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Barbara Ward: Jews were the...

Barbara Ward: Jews were the...

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of...

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Brigitte Bardot: Women get more...

Brigitte Bardot: Women get more...

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Source: In The...

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Tallulah Bankhead: Dahling Congressman Boykin:...

Tallulah Bankhead: Dahling Congressman Boykin:...

Dahling Congressman Boykin: 10 AM is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the...

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Jane Sherwood Ace: The chickens have...

Jane Sherwood Ace: The chickens have...

The chickens have come home to roast.

Source: In Peter's Quotations, by Laurence J....

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Lily Tomlin: No matter how...

Lily Tomlin: No matter how...

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Source: In 1,911 Best...

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Shirley Temple Black: Mr. President, I...

Shirley Temple Black: Mr. President, I...

Mr. President, I don't know why it took us 200 years for one of us to get the job [of...

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Raquel Welch: You can't fake...

Raquel Welch: You can't fake...

You can't fake listening. It shows.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Fanny Brice: Let the world...

Fanny Brice: Let the world...

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you...

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Millicent Fenwick: I have come...

Millicent Fenwick: I have come...

I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are...

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Barbara Bush: Believe in something...

Barbara Bush: Believe in something...

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Source: Speech, 1990.
-- Barbara...

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Pat Nixon: Being First Lady...

Pat Nixon: Being First Lady...

Being First Lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

Source: Inteview in...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: The one thing...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: The one thing...

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

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May Sarton: Don't forget that...

May Sarton: Don't forget that...

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness,...

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Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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Elizabeth Coatsworth: Only of one...

Elizabeth Coatsworth: Only of one...

Only of one thing I am sure:
when I dream
I am always ageless.


Source:...

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