Lizabeth Scott Quotes

#1. Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

Clive James

#2. There's no point putting your heart and soul into a part when you know in advance it isn't worth the trouble. I'm not speaking as a dedicated actress. Enthusiasm and hard work are requisites for any job a person undertakes. I tried working just for money once and it made me almost physically ill.

Lizabeth Scott

#3. The purpose of the salt in the steak is to do its work so quietly that it changes the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Salt must get into something in order to have effect, where it indelibly stamps its own character upon what it invades.

George O. Wood

#4. Chuck said, "Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" Cawley looked over at him. "I'll bite. How many?" "Fish," Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.

Dennis Lehane

#5. Cooking is a great way to get back in touch with things that brought us comfort.

Lizabeth Scott

#6. I've been writing forever, 20 years.

Mat Johnson

#7. Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

William Congreve

#8. One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.

Lizabeth Scott

#9. Have you ever noticed it for some reason you want to feel completely out of step with the rest of the world, the only thing to do is sit around a cocktail lounge for the afternoon?

Lizabeth Scott

#10. A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

Charles Jencks

#11. Being safe is fiction.

Tom Hodgkinson