Jackie Onassis Quotes

#1. There's an image that some of us have of Jackie Onassis, stepping out in the rain, and Maurice Tempelsman is holding her umbrella. We want that man. We want the man to be the concierge and the masseur and the travel booker.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#2. I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

Lydia Leonard

#3. You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.

Bill Hicks

#4. As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

Rupert Everett

#5. There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.)

Federico Fellini

#6. There is nothing that isn't beautiful about bread.

Eleanor Brown

#7. I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

Pierre Salinger

#8. For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

Douglas Sirk

#9. Everybody's a victim, except for small, white, nice guys who just want to make their moms proud and touch some boobies, he said. His publicist gave up.

Anonymous

#10. A dog's best friend is his illiteracy.

Ogden Nash

#11. I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.

Lydia Leonard

#12. Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

Robert Anton Wilson

#13. Every human creates his own imagined version of the world, and of himself. Every human is therefore Brahma, creator of his own aham.Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahma. Tat tvam asi, so are you.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#14. Frankly, people don't make sense to me.

Jodi Picoult

#15. Even in your closest friendships, you're alone. Maybe it's your best friend who, in fact, reminds you, just by making it her business to try to know your heart, that no one can - that our fate is to suffer in isolation and then die. But it's our collective fate! So I guess I'm an optimist.

Lauren Fox

#16. We have to sweat for everything we do in order succeed in this world we live in.

Euginia Herlihy

#17. The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble
with women, too."
["Existence" (1975)]

Joanna Russ

#18. How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

Elizabeth Gaskell

#19. The principle of feeling good applies to your family pets, for instance. Animals are wonderful, because they put you in a great emotional state. When you feel love for your pet, that great state of love will bring goodness into your life. And what a gift that is.

Rhonda Byrne

#20. The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

Matt Stone

#21. Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.

Jackie Kennedy

#22. Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

Moses Mendelssohn

#23. I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.

Dorothy Hamill