Ingenues Quotes

#1. After Theda Bara appeared in A Fool There Was, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant earrings, and even young girls were attempting to change from frank, open-eyed ingenues to the almond-eyed, carmine-lipped woman of subtlety and mystery.

Mary Pickford

#2. Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

Catherine O'Hara

#3. With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.

Gary Snyder

#4. At a point during the summer it occurred to me that I had no letters from John, not one. We had only rarely been far or long apart.

Joan Didion

#5. The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.

Mason Cooley

#6. 'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

Rob Sheffield

#7. The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Harold Bloom

#8. Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

Elaine Stritch

#9. I believe the greatness of a country is directly proportionate to what it pays attention to and the intrinsic value of that thing.

Daniel J. Muhlestein

#10. The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
And he that stands will die for nought, and home there's no returning.
The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.

A.E. Housman

#11. Here is Margo Roth Spiegelman, five feet away from me, her lips chapped to cracking, makeup-less, dirt in her fingernails, her eyes silent. I've never seen her eyes dead like that, but then again, maybe I've never seen her eyes before.

John Green

#12. The interval between the beginning of 'I am' (birth or waking) and when you lose it again (death or deep sleep) is called 'time.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

#13. My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

David Wilkerson

#14. Gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

Lynda Barry