15949 Quotes

#1. I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

Shalom Harlow

#2. It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. She was in person full-limbed and somewhat heavy; without ruddiness, as without pallor; and soft to the touch as a cloud. To see her hair was to fancy that a whole winter did not contain darkness enough to form its shadow: it closed over her forehead like nightfall extinguishing the western glow.

Thomas Hardy

#5. What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk.

Larry Geller, Joel Spector, Patricia Romanowski

#6. Taping yourself and making yourself listen to the tape of each performance no matter how bad is really important. There's always a nugget line or a direction pointed out to you in even the worst show.

Franklyn Ajaye

#7. Please reach out for help, your voice will save you.

Brooke Axtell

#8. Idiots always keep burying the truths not knowing that even the stomachs of the graves cannot digest the truths and throw up!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. He can't parade back into my life and expect me to throw confetti at his feet.

Lauren Oliver

#10. Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying.

Christina Engela

#11. It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.

Alan Dershowitz

#12. When General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.

Randall Jarrell

#13. I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.

Kij Johnson

#14. I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.

W.C. Fields

#15. If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.

Jim Wallis