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Amie Comeaux: When you smile...

Amie Comeaux: When you smile...

When you smile at me
You take me to a world I never thought I'd see
Your eyes can touch my soul
And fill me...

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Joan Baez: Hypothetical questions get...

Joan Baez: Hypothetical questions get...

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Source: Daybreak, 1966.
-- Joan...

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Tallulah Bankhead: Nobody can be...

Tallulah Bankhead: Nobody can be...

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Source: In...

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Elizabeth Taylor: I've always admitted...

Elizabeth Taylor: I've always admitted...

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Patricia Neal: Gort. Klaatu baraada...

Patricia Neal: Gort. Klaatu baraada...

Gort. Klaatu baraada nikto. (to the robot Gort)

Source: The Day the Earth Stood...

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Deborah Kerr: Personally, I think...

Deborah Kerr: Personally, I think...

Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: When you're young...

Michelle Pfeiffer: When you're young...

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing...

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Kim Cattrall: If you stick...

Kim Cattrall: If you stick...

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of...

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Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Source: In The...

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Dorothy Parker: Misfortune, and recited...

Dorothy Parker: Misfortune, and recited...

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and...

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Irene Thomas: The cello is...

Irene Thomas: The cello is...

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a...

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Marilyn vos Savant: The length of...

Marilyn vos Savant: The length of...

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than...

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Julie Burchill: What Mrs. Thatcher...

Julie Burchill: What Mrs. Thatcher...

What Mrs. Thatcher did for women was to demonstrate that if a woman had enough desire she could do what she wanted, do...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Defending the truth...

Simone de Beauvoir: Defending the truth...

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in...

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Gail Sheehy: Growth demands a...

Gail Sheehy: Growth demands a...

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Dolores Huerta: If you haven't...

Dolores Huerta: If you haven't...

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

Source: In...

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Jean Kerr: Life with Mary...

Jean Kerr: Life with Mary...

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, you got it in...

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Shirley Conran: You're never too...

Shirley Conran: You're never too...

You're never too old to grow up.

Source: Savages.
-- Shirley Conran, (Sep 21...

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Marya Mannes: In our society...

Marya Mannes: In our society...

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend...

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Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence...

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