Irene's Quotes

#1. It's never trouble to do things for people you love. - Author: Irene Hannon

#2. I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement ... trying to do what they want instead of being someone else's Barbie doll. - Author: Irene Cara

#3. As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks and scrubs for her children, but who also acts as her daughter's literary agent. - Author: Richard Corliss

#4. trailer and found Ray in his mother's bedroom. "How come you're hanging - Author: Irene Pence

#5. My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments. - Author: Irene Cara

#6. And then suddenly Danny's arms were around me, and his lips were on mine, and the crazy windshield wipers commenced singing our names together. - Author: Irene Hunt

#7. In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent. - Author: Zachary Knighton

#8. It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership. - Author: Irene Rosenfeld

#9. The older Irene got, the more she swore. I remember when her grandson pooped in his diaper at his christening, she said, 'Holy shit,' loud enough for everyone to hear. The look on that priest's face! - Author: Anita Diamant

#10. More than any expert Irene had met, Mr. Simms mastered the intricacies of dealing in art. He understood an object's worth, not solely its dollar value but how that value could be manipulated into emotional currency. - Author: Kim Fay

#11. I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things. - Author: Irene Cara

#12. It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation. - Author: Irene Rosenfeld

#13. Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. - Author: Irene Peter

#14. You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen. - Author: Leo McCarey

#15. You do things just to irritate me, don't you?"
Smiling, enjoying himself immensely, and determined to give her a wonderful and relaxing weekend, Van pushed Irene's wet hair from her face. "Don't be silly, doc." He kissed her lips, nuzzled her chin. "Of course I do things just to irritate you. - Author: Shelly Laurenston

#16. Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages. - Author: Irene Peter

#17. When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity. - Author: Maria Irene Fornes

#18. I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain. - Author: Irene Hunt

#19. That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting. - Author: Irene Dunne

#20. Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life, but has lived through them with you. Your best friend isn't the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you. - Author: Irene S. Levine

#21. If something isn't working out in one aspect of my career, it's not any big neurotic, crazy phase for me, it's just something that I accept, and that's okay. I'm not going to keep banging my head against the wall. - Author: Irene Cara

#22. Sherlock: You're exaggerating. It didn't happen that often. (in relation to Irene Adler's texts) John: 57 times in the run up to Christmas. Your pocket was moaning more than Mrs Hudson. Sherlock: Thank you for that mental image. - Author: Guy Adams

#23. Accept the fact that this is a man's world and learn how to play the game gracefully, my sweet. - Author: Irene Hunt

#24. You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence - Author: Irene Gut Opdyke

#25. During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset. - Author: Irene Rosenfeld

#26. Nothing is work when it's done with love. - Author: Irene Hannon

#27. There's no question that consumers are looking for value today. - Author: Irene Rosenfeld

#28. Her grandfather's books [ ... ] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning; every syllable was inexpressively precious - Author: Irene Nemirovsky

#29. But my core belief - that no matter what happens, God is with me - never wavers. And it's a great comfort to know that once you turn your life over to him, you never have to face anything alone again. He - Author: Irene Hannon

#30. Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well. - Author: Irene Cara

#31. Most friendships are bound to a specific time, place or season. Some women characterize these relationships as having expiration dates or shelf lives, because friendships tend to run their natural course. - Author: Irene S. Levine

#32. Enemies are people who's story you haven't heard, or who's face you haven't seen. - Author: Irene Butter

#33. Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged. - Author: Irene Fantopoulos

#34. One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There's always something just ahead. - Author: Irene Hunt

#35. It's never too late to change, it's never too late to heal. - Author: Irene Watson

#36. But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery. - Author: Irene Dunne

#37. After the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some shorter, come along. It's just been our bad luck to be born in a century full of storms, that's all. They'll die down. - Author: Irene Nemirovsky

#38. This has been a long and tiring battle for 10 years. And I'm glad it's finally resolved. My principles and reputation as a creative artist were involved here-it wasn't just about the royalties. I can now look foward to getting on with my career. - Author: Irene Cara

#39. I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing. - Author: Irene Cara

#40. When you're twenty, love is like a fever, it makes you almost delirious. When it's over you can hardly remember how it happened ... Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns itself out. - Author: Irene Nemirovsky

#41. It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess. - Author: Charles Busch

#42. Irene demanded. "There's too much sexism in Xanth. - Author: Anonymous

#43. When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy. - Author: Irene Rosenfeld

#44. It's important for me to get back to my fans here and around the world. I feel very, very blessed that so many people have continued to write me and to pour out their love for me and my work. - Author: Irene Cara

#45. There are many times when God's purpose and plan aren't clear. I may never know why some bad things happen, but I trust God does. That allows me to accept the bad as well as the good, even when I don't understand it. - Author: Irene Hannon

#46. Faith is a funny thing. It's easy to believe while life is rolling merrily along. But in times of trial, it's tempting to turn away from God. Yet that's when we need him the most. - Author: Irene Hannon

#47. Friendships unfold gradually as women share intimacies with one another- this takes time. You need to be willing to let your friends know the real you, but you don't want to spill your guts out the first time you're out to lunch. - Author: Irene S. Levine

#48. Such madness. When you're 20, love is like a fever. It makes you almost delirious. When it's over, you can hardly remember how it happened. Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns out. - Author: Irene Nemirovsky

#49. If politics mean ... the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other people's children ... then it most assuredly is a woman's job as much as it is a man's job. - Author: Irene Parlby

#50. Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief ... As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought. - Author: Janet Lembke

#51. But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined. - Author: Irene Dunne

#52. I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is. - Author: Irene Dunne

#53. The penalty of greatness is to write autographs. - Author: Sophie Irene Loeb

#54. For music alone can abolish differences
of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them. - Author: Irene Nemirovsky

#55. There's no way to be sure," Irene said. "The biggest threat is giving up hope. If he decides there's no chance to survive, he'll stop trying. - Author: Andy Weir

#56. A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous. - Author: Irene Hannon

#57. You, Baylor Irene Moore, are the most gorgeous and driven and smartest woman I've ever set eyes on. You're not even gone yet, and I miss you. - Author: Toni Aleo

#58. The tender June day persisted, refusing to die. Each pulse of light was fainter and more exquisite than the last, as if bidding farewell to the earth, full of love and regret. - Author: Irene Nemirovsky

#59. Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies I had never heard of because of this. I certainly didn't have needles hanging out of my arms, nor did I smoke anything. - Author: Irene Cara

#60. Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them. - Author: Irene Rosenfeld

#61. As that great philosopher, Mary Poppins, once said, 'A spoonful of sugar makes the feminism go down. - Author: Irene Ziegler

#62. I've learned to stay the course. There are no shortcuts. No detours. They take you further away from your goal. - Author: Irene Fantopoulos

#63. We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is. - Author: Maria Irene Fornes

#64. I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. - Author: Irene Mayer Selznick

#65. Right Angles Make Right Thinkers.
A slogan from Biocube Escape - Author: Irene Groot

#66. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
It is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other.
~Empress Irene~ - Author: Kris Waldherr

#67. How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that bleeds! How easy it is to look death in the face when it's another man's turn! - Author: Irene Nemirovsky

#68. I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you. - Author: Irene Cara

#69. Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace. - Author: Irene Rosenfeld

#70. There are two kinds of trouble: The kind you have and the kind you haven't. There are but few of the first sort, but of the second there is no end. - Author: Sophie Irene Loeb

#71. When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them. - Author: Irene Nemirovsky

#72. My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden. - Author: Irene Tomkinson

#73. Apparently Lord Wyndham did regularly donate books to various museums around London. They were usually ones which he had collected earlier, but which were no longer of interest to him or his associates. Irene twitched at the very notion. Give books away? How very frivolous, she finally said. - Author: Genevieve Cogman

#74. Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming. - Author: Bill McKibben

#75. I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'. - Author: Channing Tatum

#76. Where do we find happiness? We pursue it, search for it, kill ourselves trying to find it, and all the time it's just here ... It comes just when we've stopped expecting anything, stopped hoping, stopped being afraid. - Author: Irene Nemirovsky

#77. Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not.' I - Author: Irene Hannon

#78. She was approaching the hardest moment to be faced when separated from the one you love, the moment when you finally get used to your pain, and then, you are only half alive, because that pain meant you were still fully alive. It was a bleeding, gasping kind of life. - Author: Irene Nemirovsky

#79. Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub. - Author: Irene Dunne

#80. The situation is not good with the record companies. It's just not working out, so I don't plan to record until it's straightened out. In the meantime I'm happy doing my movies and writing the music for the theme songs, whether I sing them or not. - Author: Irene Cara

#81. I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing. - Author: Irene Cara

#82. I had been running as fast as I could for all of my adult life. A person can't listen effectively while running. A running mother is not able to pick up clues. She is not able to let go of her own agenda long enough to stop and listen. - Author: Irene Tomkinson

#83. I never won an Oscar ... and the Oscars never won Irene Papas - Author: Irene Papas

#84. Life is seldom about the destination, Sherlock," smiled Irene. "It's about the journey. - Author: Melvyn Small

#85. Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty. - Author: Sophie Irene Loeb

#86. We mustn't give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow. - Author: Irene Hunt

#87. God our Father, Lord and Savior, thank you for your love and favor, bless this food and drink we pray, and Irene who shares with me today. Amen. - Author: Jan Karon

#88. My fear of loneliness is like a disease. - Author: Irene Tomkinson

#89. Inconvenience is the road to progress - Author: Irene Fantopoulos

#90. And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films. - Author: Irene Dunne

#91. I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn't like I hadn't been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That's my nature. I've always been a kind of mature kid. - Author: Irene Cara

#92. And aren't the most beautiful follies the ones linked to love? - Author: Irene Nemirovsky

#93. Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt. - Author: Rachel Caine

#94. I'm a jewelry girl. I became with friends with designer Irene Neuwirth a few years ago. At that point, I just used to wear my wedding rings. Very low key. Now, if I could, I'd be draped from head to toe in her jewelry all the time. Everything she makes is beautiful. - Author: Busy Philipps

#95. We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa. - Author: Irene Cara

#96. Falling in love is like death ... they are both facts - Author: Irene Papas

#97. That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life - this our mother has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following. - Author: Irene Joliot-Curie

#98. Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show. - Author: Irene Dunne

#99. I have to live with my decisions, whether you like them or not. - Author: Maria Irene Fornes

#100. How you manage change can make all the difference. - Author: Irene Rosenfeld