Duenna Quotes

#1. The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

Robertson Davies

#2. Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

Carson McCullers

#3. Studies continue to provide evidence that more than any other food, fruit is associated with lowered mortality from all cancers combined.

Joel Fuhrman

#4. What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.

Terry Wogan

#5. Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times ... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.

Clarence DeMar

#6. We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Margaret Thatcher

#7. Writing the good write!

J.W. Zulauf

#8. I'm never home. I miss birthdays. I miss holidays. I miss anniversaries. I miss special moments. I'm not always there for important times, because I'm out on the road trying to make people laugh. I give up my privacy. I give up the ability to walk somewhere and relax.

Gabriel Iglesias

#9. Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

Alain Ducasse

#10. The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

T. S. Eliot

#11. The question about the end bursts out of the torment of history and the intolerableness of historical existence.

Jurgen Moltmann

#12. Your psychotic behavior and constant temper tantrums intrigue me.

Coco J. Ginger

#13. When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Bryant McGill

#14. Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded.

Craig Kilborn

#15. It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.

Melanie Klein