Grable's Quotes

#1. 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

#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. Hauk:tell me again why i can't kill him?
Nykyrian: you're afraid of handling explosives
( Born of night, sherrilyn Kenyon)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Betty Grable

#7. In his eyes, those dazzling near-black eyes, more important to me than our love or lust or friendship, was a look of pure trust.

Jim Provenzano

#8. If you bring five percent more awareness to your work tomorrow, or to your most important relationship, what might you do differently? Are you willing to find out?

Nathaniel Branden

#9. Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

Saint Augustine

#10. Give yourself-not just your time-to prayer. Remember that prayer is not an appendix to your life and your work, it is your life your real, spiritual life-and your work. Prayer is the thermometer of your soul.

Joel R. Beeke

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

Betty Grable

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

Betty Grable

#13. Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

James Lovelock

#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. 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

#16. A friend is someone who wishes what is good for the other.

John O'Donohue

#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. 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

#19. 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

#20. Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

Dee Hock

#21. If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment.

Roh Moo-hyun

#22. In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word "coincidence" does not describe luck or mistakes. It describes that which fits together perfectly.

Wayne Dyer

#23. I'm happy, but there's nothing to jump around about.

Kimi Raikkonen

#24. Clent sat up with impressive if graceless promptness, snatched his wig from a bedknob, and slammed it on his head back to front. Only then did he go about the business of actually waking.

Frances Hardinge

#25. The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.

Laurie Anderson

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

Betty Grable

#27. I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

Gareth Gates

#28. 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

#29. 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