Grable Quotes

#1. I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.

Veronica Lake

#2. When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

Grace Slick

#3. I can taste a meal and tell you every spice that's in there. I have taste buds like Betty Grable's legs - they should be insured with Lloyd's of London.

Lynda Resnick

#4. When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up ... black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne.

Dorian Corey

#5. For some reason, the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people.

Robert Osborne

#6. The pinup girl, Betty Grable, sprayed her bare butt and breasts with hairspray until they were wet. That way the top and bottom of her swimsuit
stayed glued where she wanted. Hairspray inside your high heels works the same way.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.

Marcel Duchamp

#8. The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching.

Betty Grable

#9. I believe this is yours." I hand her the last dart in my hand. "And this is mine." I cup her face in my hands before she can think anything else, and I kiss her.

Angeline Kace

#10. I'm strictly an enlisted man's girl.

Betty Grable

#11. A novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.

Elizabeth Bowen

#12. There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.

Betty Grable

#13. It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#14. As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously ... I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

Betty Grable

#15. Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.

Bart Starr

#16. The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.

Betty Grable

#17. I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

Betty Grable

#18. Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. God demands a conversion of the mind and heart as the basis of peace and security (cf. Is 26:3), not the superstitious veneration of a stone building or a traditionally sacred site

R.K. Harrison

#20. I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Betty Grable

#21. Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#22. I think nothing is good, I really think it is.

Duop Chak Wuol

#23. Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Italo Calvino

#24. You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

Betty Grable

#25. STUFF POETS STILL LIKE: POETRY

Amy King

#26. There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

Sohrab Vossoughi

#27. The woman's vision is deep and reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman, the heart is her world.

Betty Grable