Dorothy Kilgallen Quotes

#1. Grief is a disease. We were riddled with its pockmarks, tormented by its fevers, broken by its blows. It ate at us like maggots, attacked us like lice- we scratched ourselves to the edge of madness. In the process we became as withered as crickets, as tired as old dogs.

Yann Martel

#2. Always one to accept a compliment graciously, Wright.

Ashlan Thomas

#3. Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#4. I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#5. I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.

Hugh Grant

#6. There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

Lusia Strus

#7. Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#8. Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

Pamela Stephenson

#9. The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#10. You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Susan Orlean

#11. Well, then, why do we need all these books?" the boy asked.
"So that we can understand those few lines," the Englishman answered, without appearing really to believe what he had said.

Paulo Coelho

#12. He had never imagined that a man in love could be so lonely.

Rosalind Lauer

#13. I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#14. Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#15. I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.

Lena Horne

#16. I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#17. They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.

Robert Jordan

#18. My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

Dorothy Kilgallen

#19. success is 99% failure

Henry Ford

#20. I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#21. Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

Arianna Huffington

#22. Why can't I be the adorable one?

Dorothy Kilgallen

#23. I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

Salma Hayek

#24. With all respect to your religion or world-view - thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes - the keyword is "thank" - just have some gratitude and be thankful.

Bryant McGill

#25. Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#26. I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

Dorothy Kilgallen