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Grandma Moses: I look back...

Grandma Moses: I look back...

I look back on my life a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

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Liza Minnelli: There are so...

Liza Minnelli: There are so...

There are so many girls, and so few princes.

Source: On why girls marry badly, in...

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Lucille Ball: I'm not funny....

Lucille Ball: I'm not funny....

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Source: Quoted by Bob Hope.
-- Lucille Ball,...

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Hazel Scott: There's a time...

Hazel Scott: There's a time...

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the...

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Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Source: In...

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Elizabeth Taylor: I feel very...

Elizabeth Taylor: I feel very...

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind...

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Barbara Stanwyck: My only problem...

Barbara Stanwyck: My only problem...

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I don't like...

Whoopi Goldberg: I don't like...

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that,...

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Whoopi Goldberg: [S]omehow we are...

Whoopi Goldberg: [S]omehow we are...

[S]omehow we are supposed to be credits to our race. The mere fact that I'm still around makes me a credit to my race,...

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Goldie Hawn: I've finally stopped...

Goldie Hawn: I've finally stopped...

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be.

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Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that...

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Christiane Collange: Common sense is...

Christiane Collange: Common sense is...

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the...

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Jean Kerr: I feel about...

Jean Kerr: I feel about...

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to...

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Fran Lebowitz: Having been unpopular...

Fran Lebowitz: Having been unpopular...

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.

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Jill Johnston: Telling it like...

Jill Johnston: Telling it like...

Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now...

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Dorothy Thompson: Disillusion comes only...

Dorothy Thompson: Disillusion comes only...

Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith...

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Dorothy Parker: Scratch a lover,...

Dorothy Parker: Scratch a lover,...

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Source: Ballade of a Great Weariness, Enough Rope,...

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Delphine de Girardin: Business is other...

Delphine de Girardin: Business is other...

Business is other people's money.

Source: Marguerite, I 8 52.
-- Delphine de...

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Isabel Burton: He who knows...

Isabel Burton: He who knows...

He who knows and knows not he knows:? he is asleep -- wake him.
He who knows and knows he knows:? he is wise --...

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Monica Baldwin: What makes humility...

Monica Baldwin: What makes humility...

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest...

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