Dowager Cixi Quotes

#1. Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, "By dang, I can do it!" then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.

Olive Ann Burns

#2. Trial. (Fail.) (Succeed.) Repeat.

Kevin Focke

#3. Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.

Robert Kiyosaki

#4. I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.

Sam Riley

#5. Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

Empress Dowager Cixi

#6. Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

Empress Dowager Cixi

#7. Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.

Empress Dowager Cixi

#8. I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.

Jen Kirkman

#9. I had an album out at exactly the same time as 'Love to Love You' called 'Einzelganger,' and it's great, all electronic. I'm using a vocoder, doing all this cut-up stuff on there, but no one knows about it.

Giorgio Moroder

#10. The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

Joaquin Phoenix

#11. My lying is a second skin by now, so easy to forget it's there, so I don't always remember that lying is actually an art, and those who aren't meticulous about it are easily exposed.

Jillian Cantor

#12. Everyone's afraid of everybody else ... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.

Ellen Hopkins

#13. God, they sounded like two solicitous Victorians talking about sex.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.

Zoe Kravitz