Top 100 Loretta's Quotes

#1. A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it ... its appeal is permanent.

Loretta Young

#2. I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

Loretta Young

#3. By gad - do you mean to say I am as important a possession as your cattle?" She pressed her hand to her heart. "Oh, Dain, you are too devastatingly romantic. I am altogether overcome.

Loretta Chase

#4. I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

Loretta Lynn

#5. People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

Loretta Devine

#6. The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

Loretta Lynn

#7. She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black heart.
But now she couldn't speak, because it was too much, whatever it was.

Loretta Chase

#8. Loretta didn't have much time left for mothering, and once I was old enough to fry my own eggs, she started leaving me home with the cat. Then the cat ran away; she didn't notice. Poor

Robin Wasserman

#9. Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

Loretta Young

#10. Jessica swallowed. "I think you had better stick to English."
"But Italian is so moving," Dain said.
"To ho voluto dal primo che ti vedi." I've wanted you from the first moment I saw you.
"Mi tormenti ancora." You've tormented me ever since.

Loretta Chase

#11. Right here, right now? This is precious. This is life. You're alive. Somehow, all of the genetic material of all those thousands of ancestors came together in the perfect combination to make you, exactly as you are. That's magical - it's the greatest kind of magic I know. Our very existence." My

Loretta Lost

#12. I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment..

Loretta Chase

#13. But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end.

Loretta Chase

#14. Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans.

Loretta Lynch

#15. If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

Loretta Young

#16. You needn't consult me about redecorating. I know no female can live two days in a house and leave anything as it was. I shall be much astonished if I can find my way about when I return.

Loretta Chase

#17. Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership that is calm, assertive, sure of themselves. And quite honestly, I don't think that some of these young Marines care if it's a male or a female. They just want to be properly led.

Loretta Reynolds

#18. It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

Loretta Lynch

#19. I've been a fan of Loretta Devine's, since I was a kid, from 'Waiting To Exhale,' and she's been in so many of my favorite movies and television shows.

Kevin Daniels

#20. If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!

Loretta Lynn

#21. It was hard to hide one's emotion from one's own kind.

Loretta Chase

#22. Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

Loretta Chase

#23. In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.

Karolyn Grimes

#24. Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

Loretta Lynn

#25. I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.

Loretta Ellsworth

#26. There's a fearsome creature that no man can ever hope to vanquish: the neurotic Bridezilla.

Loretta Lost

#27. There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

Loretta Lynn

#28. I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

Loretta Lynn

#29. That's what brings in the customers: the combination of gossip and the intricate detail about the dresses, all related as drama. It has the same effect on women, I'm told, as looking at naked women has on men.

Loretta Chase

#30. I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.

Loretta Lynn

#31. It's kind of odd when you think of Loretta Lynn, when she was first traveling and recording country music. It was all built through word of mouth. If you pleased the fans, they would pass it around to their friends and family.

Patty Loveless

#32. It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back.

Loretta Swit

#33. I scream at the top of my lungs. I scream bloody murder. I scream with years of pent up fury. But no sound leaves my chest. It's like I have forgotten how to speak.

Loretta Lost

#34. I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

Loretta Lynn

#35. My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.

Loretta Lynn

#36. By gad, is that you, Ainswood? I haven't seen you in a dog's age. How's the gout? Still troubling you?

Loretta Chase

#37. It's important that you take care of yourself and blow off steam in the right way. Don't let some woman walk in and say, "hey, goodbye!" and take your man. Kill her if you can! I'm only kidding.

Loretta Lynn

#38. if we were to give up our problem we wouldn't know who we would be without it. That's because the ego convinces us that we're nobody without our special problems.

Loretta Siani

#39. A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

Loretta Lynn

#40. Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Loretta Lynn

#41. All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

Loretta Lynn

#42. A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Loretta Lynn

#43. Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else.

Loretta Young

#44. Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men's trousers, you needn't assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

Loretta Chase

#45. Beaumont wanted Esmond very badly. Esmond wanted Beaumont's wife. And she didn't want anybody.

Loretta Chase

#46. I think it's important, however, that as we again talk about the importance of free speech we make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not America they are not who were they are not what we do and they will be prosecuted, so I want that message to be clear also.

Loretta Lynch

#47. No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her. "Your ducal self assurance. Everything will give way to you. Even Satan's own storm."
"You are definitely improving," he said. "Full mocking sentences.

Loretta Chase

#48. We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

Loretta Lynch

#49. Our most effective response to terror and to hatred is compassion to unity, and it's love.

Loretta Lynch

#50. M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

Loretta Swit

#51. An adult should not be forced into marriage as a child is forced to eat his peas. Peas are only part of a meal. Marriage is a life's work.

Loretta Chase

#52. She's never met an adjective or adverb she didn't like.

Loretta Chase

#53. Well, the bad news," Swedish said from the wheel, "is that Chess still thinks he's funny."
"What's the good news?" Loretta asked, leaning on our little copper-tubed harpoon. "That Kodoc dropped a bomb on the city?

Joel N. Ross

#54. I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

Loretta Lynn

#55. I think that anybody can become a terrorist. That's my point of view. But, not everybody can actually kill. In order to reach that level, you have to be deeply convinced.

Loretta Napoleoni

#56. It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Loretta Lynch

#57. Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

Loretta Lynn

#58. Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.

Loretta Lynn

#59. I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.

Jewel

#60. I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

Loretta Lynn

#61. Loretta's eyes flashed. "Is that what gets you through the night, Philip?" she asked. "Choosing to believe something, whether it's true or not?"
"In one way or another, Loretta, isn't that what gets everyone through the night?" I asked.

Thomas H. Cook

#62. I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

Loretta Young

#63. Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a villain come to cut our throats, rob our stores and ravish our women. No need for alarm. Mrs Pembroke has the matter in hand.

Loretta Chase

#64. Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it."
"Of course we will," Sophye said.
"He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said.
"No, he asked me to marry him."
There was a short stunned silence.
Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said.

Loretta Chase

#65. I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

Loretta Lynn

#66. I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't really suit me. I didn't enjoy working in the medium. It's very messy. I prefer to have it clean, with a nice computer.

Loretta Lux

#67. We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things.

Loretta Lynch

#68. My mother has said that it's often better for a husband and wife not to understand each other too well," he [Rupert] said. "A little mystery keeps a marriage more interesting, she says.

Loretta Chase

#69. You cannot judge one man by another's sins.

Loretta Livingstone

#70. The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor's prescription.

Loretta Lynch

#71. I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?

Loretta Young

#72. I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying.

Loretta Swit

#73. It's ironic that when I was alive, all I thought about was death.

Loretta Ellsworth

#74. Stifle it,' Longmore told the boy. He needed a clear head to find his way through Sophy's rabbit warren of a mind. He couldn't do that and translate the boy's deranged version of English at the same time.

Loretta Chase

#75. I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.

Loretta Reynolds

#76. Dain could not decide what to do with Lady Wallingdon's invitation.
A part of his mind recommended he burn it.
Another part suggested he urinate on it.
Another advised him to shove it down Her Ladyship's throat.

Loretta Chase

#77. Well, shoot, I don't believe in double standards, where men can get away with things that women can't. In God's eyes, there's no double standard.

Loretta Lynn

#78. It's so important to look relaxed.

Loretta Young

#79. You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I love that country ham. Well you say I'm made just to fit your plans but there's a barnyard shovel pick your hands. If your eyes are on me you're lookin' at country.

Loretta Lynn

#80. In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

Loretta Young

#81. I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view.

Loretta Swit

#82. If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.

Loretta Lynn

#83. I am most grateful for having bad eyesight, which prevented me from becoming a commercial pilot and instead, led me to having the best job in the world - representing the people of California's 47th Congressional District.

Loretta Sanchez

#84. HOrrible. The most horrible sound on earth. The sound of death and torture and the agonies of a burning hell," Lisle said. "Damn them. It's bagpipes.

Loretta Chase

#85. Was her God up there in the sky as she believed? Did he truly hear man's whispers,his thoughts? Hunter could see his own Gods,Mother Earth,Mother Moon, Father Sun, the wind coming from four directions. It was easy to believe in what he could see. Why did Loretta's God hide himself?

Catherine Anderson

#86. This book is dedicated to Sweet Loretta Modern. It's also dedicated to all the Jerichoholics who have stood behind me through all of the trials and tribulations over the last twenty years.If I were wearing a hat, I would tip it all to you.

Chris Jericho

#87. There's always been a man telling me what to do.

Loretta Lynn

#88. There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.

Loretta Lynn

#89. Holding a large object aloft, she went after him, and the fellow ran. Then something struck the back of Rupert's head. The world went black with flashing lights. The ground opened up under his feet, and down he went.

Loretta Chase

#90. Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

Loretta Lynn

#91. I don't ravish women, if that's what you're thinking," he said.
"Oh, no," she said. "I had supposed that women stood in line waiting for you to relieve them of their virtue.

Loretta Chase

#92. For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.

Loretta Devine

#93. He was a man, an attractive man if one overlooked the obnoxiousness. But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end. Naturally

Loretta Chase

#94. I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

Loretta Young

#95. Loretta started belting out a song: "Row, row, row your boat, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G !

Joel N. Ross

#96. I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread ... stale and dry.

Loretta Lynn

#97. I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.

Loretta Lynn

#98. I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

Loretta Lynn

#99. I know why you want to wear the plum," Marcelline said. "It's ravishing. It'll make Longmore swoon."
"It might make him do some things," Sophy said. "But swooning isn't one of them. He's the sort of man who tells a girl he l-loves her - and then l-laughs. As though
it's a j-joke.

Loretta Chase

#100. I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Loretta Lynn

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