Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotes

#1. I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Claudy Conn

#2. I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable.

Katharine Graham

#3. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.

Katharine Graham

#4. Tip the world over and everything loose falls into L.A.

Linda Sunshine

#5. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#6. I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist ... Well, a show-off anyway.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#7. He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#8. You can't make souffle rise twice.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#9. I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#10. The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

Aron Nimzowitsch

#11. You can't make a souffle rise twice.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#12. I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#13. I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#14. He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#15. [Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#16. I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.

Katy Perry

#17. Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#18. It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.

Stephen King

#19. Musicians have always adopted Macs.

Trent Reznor

#20. [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#21. What you feel is infatuation. It's an illness, an obsession. It's anything but love.

Raphael Montes

#22. If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#23. I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#24. Our feelings are the wings of our intuition.

Jodi Livon

#25. If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

Sadie Frost

#26. [On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#27. How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn't have over the Holy Spirit they did have?

Kris Vallotton

#28. If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#29. People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#30. If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#31. Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

Paulo Coelho

#32. My specialty is detached malevolence.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#33. Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth