Empress Dowager Quotes

#1. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future before him.

Theodore Monod

#3. Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#4. The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#5. I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and this is my creative vision, and if people don't like it, they don't have to see it.

George Lucas

#6. We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.

Tim Gunn

#7. 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

#8. The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible.

Carlo Grante

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

Empress Dowager Cixi

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

Empress Dowager Cixi

#11. My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.

Van Morrison

#12. Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without.

Rafael Ortiz