Diahann Carroll Best Quotes

#1. I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior. - Author: Diahann Carroll

#2. If you're not invited to the party, throw your own. - Author: Diahann Carroll

#3. I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches. - Author: Diahann Carroll

#4. In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope. - Author: Diahann Carroll

#5. The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
[Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;
Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.] - Author: Plautus

#6. Steady, sustained, and incremental spiritual progress produces the fruit of steadfastness-and helps us to reduce the disparity between what we know and what we do. Testimony is strengthened and conversion unto the Lord is deepened through small and simple things done well over time. - Author: David A. Bednar

#7. I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice. - Author: Diahann Carroll

#8. I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in ... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride ... how the people I associated with worked together. - Author: Diahann Carroll

#9. The moment you walk into a room you brighten it, Lucy Fitzpatrick, and I for one feel like the luckiest bastard in the world for having known you. - Author: L. H. Cosway

#10. You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning. - Author: Diahann Carroll

#11. With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house. - Author: Diahann Carroll

#12. I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone. - Author: Walter Mosley

#13. [after discussion about what evil is, a question asked to Elphaba on why she killed Madame Morrible]
"Why did you do it?" asked the hostess with spirit.
The Witch shrugged. "For fun? Maybe evil is an art form. - Author: Gregory Maguire

#14. I say we should stake him to an anthill and throw little pickles at him! (Selena) - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's ... and I'm lucky to be affiliated. - Author: Diahann Carroll

#16. I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so. - Author: Diahann Carroll

#17. Don't wait to live. Live now! - Author: C.M. Halstead

#18. I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people. - Author: Barbara Mandrell

#19. You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere. - Author: Richard M. Nixon

#20. Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger. - Author: Colin Farrell

#21. When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age. - Author: Tracy Morgan

#22. I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention. - Author: Diahann Carroll