Top 100 Judith Quotes
#1. Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.
Lauren Willig
#2. Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!
Noel Coward Sir
#3. In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.
Katie Hafner
#4. Pessimism is a funny thing, isn't it? Madison thought as she looked at Judith's furrowed face. I like a bit of pessimism as much as the next man, but when I'm bombarded with it I suddenly became an eternal optimist.
Melissa Kite
#5. I scrubbed my door", said Judith, "with every magical cleansing agent I could think of. And Cillit Bang!
Paul Cornell
#6. Judith hated nostalgia. It was just the waiting room for death.
Paul Cornell
#7. It was then that I thought: Judith I could slap your face for a whole day and not stop even for lunch.
Graham Joyce
#8. Jesus. Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Delilah, Jezebel, Salome, Judith, Eve. Trouble, every last one. Add Minerva Highwood to the list.
Tessa Dare
#9. He wasn't a hero. He wasn't the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost himself. Shadows had invaded a long time ago and stolen his life. But he would give anything he had left to be the man who found a way to save Judith
Christine Feehan
#10. Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn't be a romance novelist.
Sarah MacLean
#11. Judith took a deep breath. "Aye, you captured Iain's wife," she said again. "But he married your daughter.
Julie Garwood
#12. Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good.
David Foster Wallace
#13. Even as Camille's beauty and precocity took form, when pride alone might have nurtured proprietary feelings, she never seemed quite the child Judith was meant to call her own.
Tom McNeal
#14. Is he actually good?" Judith asked. "He's incredible." "Sorry, are we talking about the painting or the shagging?" Nev asked. "The painting!" He grinned. "Right.
Ruthie Knox
#15. Stupid people had a few authors in common: Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Danielle Steel. What nonsense. Such dreck.
Victor LaValle
#16. And then I say to myself that we should believe in that which we felt when we were strong and happy rather than in that which we feel when we are sick and sad. Do you not think, Judith, that one is more truly oneself in times of joy than in times of sorrow?
Elizabeth Goudge
#17. Judith realised, with horror, that they were heading over to talk to her, and couldn't find, at a quick glance, anyone else she knew well enough to get into a conversation with. There were, just occasionally, drawbacks to being a nasty old bitch.
Paul Cornell
#18. There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles
Judith Briles
#19. [Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we've stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.
Emily Matchar
#20. Judith, you sound
horrible. What's the matter with your voice? Are you coming down with something?"
Judith shook her head. "I'm all right."
"You sound like you swallowed a frog.
Julie Garwood
#21. unreasonable.' She felt like saying it was barking mad but restrained herself. 'Aahh, not quite ready yet. Not quite evolved enough. But you're getting there, Judith. You have taken the first tentative steps. The fact that you came to me proves that. You'll be back.' Sheeva jumped up from the
Patricia Scanlan
#23. We know also that she had three children with William Shakespeare - Susanna in May 1583 and the twins, Judith and Hamnet, in early February 1585 - but all the rest is darkness. We know nothing about the couple's relationship - whether they bickered constantly or were eternally doting.
Bill Bryson
#24. The telemarketers who called her up now seemed either desperate or resigned to the point of a mindless drone, until Judith, who had time on her hands and ice in her heart, engaged them in dark conversations that always got her removed from their lists.
Paul Cornell
#25. A famous philosopher (either Aristotle or Judith Krantz, I forget who) once said about being a woman in Los Angeles: If you're blonde and beautiful, you're interchangeable. If you're not, you're invisible.
Laura Levine
#26. Judith Brigham expected her daughter to remain a spinster the rest of her life. In the more pungent phraseology of her soon-to-be stepfather, "Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match." He
Stephen King
#27. [Judith Shakespeare] lives in you and in me [ ... ] she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.
Virginia Woolf
#28. Frances Catherine, I'm going to win this argument," Judith announced. She nodded to her friend when she made that prediction. "Why?" "Because it's my turn," she explained. "You may win the next argument." "Lord, you're stubborn.
Julie Garwood
#29. And Judith, the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness.
William Faulkner
#30. My ultimate crush may be Judith McNaught - I met her once more than 20 years ago, and she was incredibly kind and encouraging to me. I adore that woman. But I also fangirl over aspiring or beginning authors, because every time I talk with them, I'm so energized and inspired.
Lisa Kleypas
#31. I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest's book, I thought, This is it.
Robert Redford
#32. Judith insisted he attend some crunchy little granola academy where all plastic is forbidden and all the teachers wear thick wool socks and old sandals.
John Grisham
#33. Also known as Judith Neville Lytton, the author of Toy Dogs and Their Ancestors had some illustrious ancestors of her own. Lady Wentworth was the great granddaughter of Lord Byron the poet,
Michael Brandow
#34. had made them stop. "Did they throw stones at the man who spit in his drink?" Judith wanted to know.
Julie Garwood
#35. There was Arctic John, a businessman from Salisbury who doesn't hold water, Bruce Knott, a social worker from Cumberland who spends his lunch hour picking his bum, and Judith Glycerine, the reformation pig.
St John Morris
#36. Dean's wife, Judith Steinberg, made a rare appearance with Dean. She's a doctor, so I guess they brought her in to stop the hemorrhaging.
Jay Leno
#37. Judith, do you take Ian for your husband?" She looked up at him before giving her answer. "We'll see
Julie Garwood
#38. One whisper, Judith, added to a thousand others will become a roar of discontent even
Julie Garwood
#39. In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of the most anguished political crises of our times.
Jacqueline Rose
#40. What is your name?"
"Again sir, that is no concern of yours."
"A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda."
...
"Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?"
"Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.
Georgette Heyer
#41. Translation is so important. The new American translations of the Bible sound like a Judith Krantz novel.
Rabih Alameddine
#42. The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time.
Michael Storm
#43. Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified and worked through, and appropriate adult roles and behavior tried out.
Judith Lynne Hanna
#44. Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.
Judith Viorst
#45. Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter.
Judith McNaught
#46. Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
Judith Butler
#47. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.
Judith McNaught
#48. There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.
Judith Butler
#49. Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.
Judith Butler
#50. I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go to a flea market or garage sale, you see lots of things you've never seen before and you have no idea what the price is going to be or should be.
Judith Miller
#51. awkwardness and shame. Still, I turned to food
Judith Newton
#52. True healing is not physical - it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose then it can be quite healing as it purifies the mind of thoughts that create disease.
Judith Cornell
#53. People missed things. People didn't notice; people didn't care. People's own misperceptions made black into white, made grey into whatever they wanted it to be.
Judith Ivory
#54. If I had the pen of Moliere, I could make him comic. That is the role of art, is it not? To make monsters comic, so we can bear them, and our own cheap griefs into grand tragedy, so that others will weep with us.
Judith Merkle Riley
#55. There was no thunderbolt, no quickening of the heart, but there was a sense of recognition.A familiarity about his face..
Judith Kinghorn
#56. Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.
Judith Thurman
#57. Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
Judith Martin
#58. Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.
Judith Martin
#59. I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.
Judith Jamison
#61. Don't try to control what's outside. Be at peace with what's inside.
Judith Orloff
#62. He was afraid to pick up the baby. If he touched it, it might bond with him or something. Or he might leave fingerprints all over it.
Judith Arnold
#64. If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.
Judith Martin
#65. Royce's eyes narrowed in discouragement at the thoght of having to sing to jenny. his deep bariton voice would surely bring every hound for miles to yap and nip at his heels.
Judith McNaught
#67. I buy 1920s iridescent Scottish glass. I love the way the sun hits it every morning. You touch something and you know. To me, people should buy something they love. Buy something you'd want to come downstairs and stroke.
Judith Miller
#68. There are moments that I know I will long for even as I live them.
Judith Katzir
#69. We all have our own closets to come out of.
Judith Light
#71. A man in cahoots with a woman's sexual instinct was the devil himself, for he had the united power over her - himself and her own longing - greater than a mere man
Judith Ivory
#72. We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.
Judith Rodin
#74. In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.
Judith M Bardwick
#75. There are not two cultures, only half-cultured individuals
Judith Merril
#76. I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how I'm giving to and educating an audience. So I tend to go with people who are complex and substantive.
Judith Light
#77. Be sure to see that the first few pages have the reader on the edge of his seat, unable to put the book down. Most editors only have time to read a few pages before making a decision; make those pages memorable!
Judith Saxton
#78. I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
Judith Butler
#80. Maybe I ought to do exactly what I told Nick I was going to do and pursue you myself."
Lauren smiled. "I have a feeling you're as jaded and cynical as he is." He looked so stung that she added teasingly, "Well,you are-but still very attractive,for all that."
"Thanks," he said dryly.
Judith McNaught
#81. The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult ... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.
Judith Weir
#82. There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.
Judith Butler
#83. The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.
Judith Herrin
#85. I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.
Judith Hanson Lasater
#86. I have no more cheap morals to draw from all this death.
Judith Rascoe
#87. It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.
Judith McNaught
#88. I'm quite convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.
Judith Krantz
#89. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
Judith Guest
#90. ...living in Rome is either a one or a two, or a nine or ten. Not much in between. And some days it's both.
Judith Works
#91. The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.
Judith Martin
#92. The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better way to make a point.
Judith Orloff
#93. My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.
Judith Martin
#94. Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.
Judith Martin
#95. Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.
Judith Viorst
#96. Someone once called Lincoln two-faced. "If I am two-faced, would I wear the face that I have now?" Lincoln asked.
Judith St. George
#97. Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at this time of the interview (while in their 20s and 30s) that they would never be safe with their fathers, and that they would have to defend themselves as long as their fathers lived.
Judith Lewis Herman
#98. The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them, however, because it is incorrect to correct grown people, even if you have grown them yourself.
Judith Martin
#99. I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.
Judith Light
#100. Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.
Judith Lynne Hanna
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