Top 33 Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes
#1. I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.
Sada Thompson
#2. As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.
James Hollis
#3. Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.
Warren Ellis
#5. I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#6. That amenity which the French have developed into a great art ... conversation.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#7. Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent, protect you from age.
Matt Trevitz
#8. I think it must be one of those things where no one's wrong and everybody loses.
Elizabeth Langston
#9. To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#10. Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#11. Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.
Bubba Watson
#12. Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our heart we are trying to convey. For honesty is the great requisite of art. If we remain honest with ourselves, art, which is always there, never lets us down.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#13. There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#14. Sometimes your music sounds like there's too much inside of you. Maybe even you couldn't get it all out. Maybe that's why you died. Like you exploded from the inside.
Ava Dellaira
#16. Millions of marriages are unhappy; if everybody confessed the truth, perhaps all are more or less so.
Charlotte Bronte
#17. The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#18. Some choices are forever ... Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.
Wendy Mass
#19. All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane ...
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#21. Then he dipped his head, touched his mouth to mine and then lifted it away before he whispered, "Yeah, and I'm fucking glad you did. You were magnificent, sweetness. Fuckin' phenomenal.
Kristen Ashley
#22. Yes,it is remarkable how far a person can travel by sea.
S.L. Whyte
#23. Doing something wrong repeatedly does not make it right.
Tim Fargo
#24. I'll never forget what we did."
"Save the world?" Dak asked.
"Yep, save the world. And I'm glad it was with you.
James Dashner
#25. Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#27. It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#28. Suddenly I think that if I must retire from city life I might just as well live in France, where I would be happy, and I put the thought away as a private dream. - Elizabeth Pepys
Sara George
#29. Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#32. It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#33. Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
