Top 100 Arlene Quotes
#1. Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#2. Arlene and I have to get a divorce. She thinks I'm a pervert because I drank our water bed.
Woody Allen
#3. Heya, Arlene. What's shakin'?" Cotton greeted.
"Don't shift some of this weight, everything," Arlene replied.
Kristen Ashley
#4. Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly
Charlaine Harris
#5. I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.
Charlaine Harris
#6. However, Arlene's arrival had kind of wiped out my options. I
Charlaine Harris
#7. Darling, I have a tip," Arlene said. "Never, ever wait for a man.
Judy Blundell
#8. Arlene was one of a kind, a true friend when I needed one, a grande dame from the old school. She was the sweetest of old ladies, and I will miss her dearly. All of those things are true, but the words I choose are far more profound.
"She smelled like cookies," I whisper through tears.
David Arnold
#9. To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.
Arlene Croce
#10. When autumn gusts blew in from the Rideau Lakes, parched brown leaves swirled and scattered around the sides of the neglected building, forming mounds like grave-markers, for ghosts of the past, who lingered on the dust-covered dance floor.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#11. The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.
Arlene J. Chai
#12. Sometimes being in control of everything comes with a lot of challenges.
Arlene Dickinson
#13. Having less power doesn't mean you are of lesser worth and therefore don't have anything to offer
Arlene Dickinson
#14. Authenticity inspire respect because it takes courage to own who you really are.
Arlene Dickinson
#15. We don't always come out unbreakable the first time. So we are broken and rebuilt several times, until there is no question that we can stand on our own
Arlene Lagos
#16. Take it from this Lanark County kid - you won't find any better, more flavourful syrup, than from the Maple Syrup Capital of Ontario
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#17. You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few brief minutes and then the wind blows away your footprints
Arlene Blum
#18. It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
Arlene Croce
#19. It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.
Arlene Francis
#20. Looking around, from near the top of Foley Mountain, it was easy to imagine why the early settlers decided to make their home in Westport.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#21. Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.
Arlene J. Chai
#23. The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet of soft green, and the skies above our house were filled with choruses of birdsong once again.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#25. I believe my high school book said I was most likely to become a candlestick maker. Guessing I didn't exactly exude confidence but just goes to show you that your path is yours to choose and make the best of and not for someone else to tell you what you can or cannot be.
Arlene Dickinson
#27. I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.
Arlene Dahl
#28. Hero. People didn't even know the meaning of the word.
Arlene Hunt
#29. These women with their talk of capricious personal gods, devils and spirits, yet here he was, the greatest devil any of them could imagine, flying easily under their radar.
Arlene Hunt
#30. You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.
Arlene Dickinson
#31. Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.
Arlene Croce
#32. Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.
Arlene Blum
#33. Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.
Arlene Francis
#34. I have been truly blessed with the ability to compartmentalize the many competing agendas in my mind. Because of this I can shut it off and enjoy the moment.
Arlene Dickinson
#35. If you want success, roll your sleeves up and fight for it!
Arlene Brown
#36. Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
#37. Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,
And imprint forever upon our hearts
That this is home
and that we are loved.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#38. The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.
Arlene J. Chai
#39. How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?
Arlene Dahl
#41. If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
Arlene Francis
#42. Daddy said that nobody really wins a war. They only make it look that way.
Arlene Eisenbise
#43. It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.
Arlene Francis
#44. Apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.
Arlene Francis
#45. The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.
Arlene Blum
#46. It's no time to be sweet - we are tender, flammable, so light, we are the orphaned ones of lovers.
Arlene Kim
#47. I've got a lot of businesses that I've invested in and I am really enjoying it.
Arlene Dickinson
#49. Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
Arlene J. Chai
#50. I think I am normal. I am normal for me.
Arlene Hunt
#51. The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.
Arlene J. Chai
#52. I want to own my own business because then I can be in control of everything.
Arlene Dickinson
#53. It's a funny thing about love. You can't make it right when it's wrong and you can't make it wrong when it's right, no matter how hard you try.
Arlene James
#54. importance. A control knob cracked into a tiny mess in his careful hand.
Arlene Webb
#55. Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.
Arlene Francis
#56. Watch it ... people who keep things inside them develop all sorts of disease ... all that emotional gunk's got to find an outlet. Angry people develop cysts; stubborn people get arthritis; resentful people die of cancer.
Arlene J. Chai
#57. Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.
Arlene Croce
#58. ALWAYS FULL OF QUESTIONS ... How many times must I tell you, better to listen than to talk. But you're always talking ... asking useless things ... whatever for?"
"Because I want to know.
Arlene J. Chai
#59. The past was nothing, a dream; it could not be touched or altered. It was, in his view, worthless.
Arlene Hunt
#60. People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.
Arlene Francis
#61. Landing on his feet was nothing new to Caleb. He did not believe in luck, he believed in the law of nature. Animals did not rely on luck. They lived and died by their instincts.
Arlene Hunt
#62. Take each other for better or worse, but not for granted.
Arlene Dahl
#63. Who knows what goes on in that girl's head? Who knows what goes on in anybody's head really?
Arlene Hunt
#65. You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.
Arlene Blum
#66. My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different.
Arlene Dickinson
#67. I am excited to be able to do something at this stage in my life that I feel is going to have some meaning. More helping people from a financial perspective understand their own strengths and lend a voice to things that I think are socially important.
Arlene Dickinson
#68. A masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
Arlene Croce
#69. Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.
Arlene Blum
#70. The true measure of success isn't winning, it's whether you won & could actually deliver.
Arlene Dickinson
#71. I will always remember that year in Almonte, and how their sun seemed to shine a little brighter, and the Mississippi seemed to rush along a little quicker through their town.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#72. My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things.
Arlene Dickinson
#73. People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes.
Arlene Dickinson
#74. Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.
Arlene Croce
#75. Every unhappy person thinks her unhappiness is unique.
Arlene J. Chai
#76. He drew some relief from knowing that she was happy doing whatever the hell it was she did. Sometimes it seemed to him she was the only happy person he knew, and that frightened him so badly it made him want to curl up and die.
Arlene Hunt
#77. You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.
Arlene Dahl
#78. Hershey was a source of pride for the townspeople of Smiths Falls, and was the instrument that put food on many tables.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#80. It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#81. As long as you believe what you're doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.
Arlene Blum
#82. I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts ... I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's lives.
Arlene J. Chai
#83. Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.
Arlene Ang
#84. If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.
Arlene Croce
#85. You have to respect yourself before you can command a guy's respect.
Arlene James
#86. Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.
Arlene Dahl
#88. We need only to close our eyes and we are back on the Third Line, walking up the lane, through the yard and entering the bright, warm kitchen. We are home again.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#89. Some things were done a certain way and they had been done that same way for ages. Most of the time it was a good thing, a reliable thing, and we grew up being able to count on life being very predictable and very dependable.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#90. The air was fresh and crisp and had a distinct smell which was a mixture of the dried leaves on the ground and the smoke from the chimneys and the sweet ripe apples that were still clinging onto the branches in the orchard behind the house.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#91. It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.
Arlene Croce
#92. How can I stand here forgiven and free of all my past mistakes, and not forgive you?
Arlene James
#93. Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning
Arlene Goldbard
#95. It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever!
Arlene Hunt
#96. Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.
Arlene Francis
#97. But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear ...
You are in the city of lies.
Arlene J. Chai
#98. The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.
Arlene Raven
#99. Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.
Arlene Croce
#100. Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers ...
Arlene Francis
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