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Barbara Stanwyck: There is a...

Barbara Stanwyck: There is a...

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

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Thelma Ritter: Between the late...

Thelma Ritter: Between the late...

Between the late late show at night and Dave Garroway in the morning, why, it seems like there ain't much...

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Thelma Ritter: If there's anything...

Thelma Ritter: If there's anything...

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

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Shelley Long: I'm not as...

Shelley Long: I'm not as...

I'm not as klutzy as I used to be . . . . I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my...

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Maggie Smith: Little girls, I...

Maggie Smith: Little girls, I...

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the cr?me de la...

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Kirstie Alley: I was a...

Kirstie Alley: I was a...

I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion...

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Jane Seymour: Music has brought...

Jane Seymour: Music has brought...

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes....

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Joan Collins: Loneliness is the...

Joan Collins: Loneliness is the...

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Simone Signoret: Nostalgia isn't what...

Simone Signoret: Nostalgia isn't what...

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Simone Signoret: He bore no...

Simone Signoret: He bore no...

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

Source: On film executive Jack L....

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Susan RoAne: They say, You...

Susan RoAne: They say, You...

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation...

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Lynda Barry: If it is...

Lynda Barry: If it is...

If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say No! I don't want it right now, that's...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't very...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't very...

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Where I was...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Where I was...

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that...

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Louise Nevelson: A woman may...

Louise Nevelson: A woman may...

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that...

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Joyce A Myers: A BMW can't...

Joyce A Myers: A BMW can't...

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Too many people...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Too many people...

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

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Barbara Ward: There is no...

Barbara Ward: There is no...

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half...

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Katharine Graham: A mistake is...

Katharine Graham: A mistake is...

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Source: In The Manager's Book of...

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