Top 100 Lucille Quotes
#1. Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
Julia Roberts
#2. Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#3. To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
Lucille Clifton
#4. In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball
#5. I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.
Lucille Ball
#6. How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'
Lucille Ball
#7. Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#8. Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
Lucille Clifton
#9. I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.
Jenny Lewis
#10. Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
Lucille Clifton
#11. In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
Lucille Clifton
#12. People of character don't allow the environment to dictate their style.
Lucille Kallen
#13. Learning to sketch the nude human form is standard practice for a beginning drawing class," she said. "We always hire a nude model. Last season I did it myself." While he was adjusting to the horror of that, Lucille went on.
Jill Shalvis
#14. dreaming your x-ray vision could see the beauty in me.
Lucille Clifton
#15. What does it mean that a Christian must have God's life inside him?
Lucille Travis
#16. Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball
#17. If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball
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Lucille Ball
#18. What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
Lucille Clifton
#19. So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig.
Chelsea Peretti
#20. Lucille always loved a strong breeze. She said it was nature's way of blowing away our sorrows.'
Just then another gust of wind whipped around us. Aunt Tootie smiled. I smiled too.
Beth Hoffman
#21. Cookie's cousin Lucille, for example. Or her second cousins. Or her uncle on her mother's side. Her whole family, in fact, was a Harvard study waiting to happen.
Darynda Jones
#23. I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.
Lucille Clifton
#24. Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
Lucille Clifton
#25. Taking good care of yourself means the people in your life receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
Lucille Zimmerman
#26. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.
Lucille Ball
#27. Harry sometimes wished that Lucille and Trinket could swap personalities; he thought Lucille was prettier, but Trinket rarely gave him any shit, which was nice.
Brian Alan Ellis
#28. I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball
#29. Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
Lucille Clifton
#30. Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive ...
Lucille Kallen
#31. I would rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ~Lucille Ball
K. Langston
#32. A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!
Lucille Kallen
#33. Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#34. Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#35. May you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back
Lucille Clifton
#37. I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#38. I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball
#39. You must think your pretty cool huh, just playing the critic and judging the world from the sidelines.
Lucille Kallen
#41. Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.
Scott Simon
#42. I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.
Lucille Kallen
#43. A firefly blinked in front of me, and Lucille leaped off the step. It flew higher, but that dumb cat kept reaching for it. She didn't seem to know how far away it really was. Like the stars. Like a lot of things.
Kami Garcia
#44. I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball
#45. My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.
Steven Wright
#46. Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
Lucille Ball
#47. Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.
Lucille Kallen
#48. My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days like a dreamwalker in a field; seemed like what she touched was here seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seemed like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in
Lucille Clifton
#49. Real love, true love is not like the shooting star that makes you go, "ooh, aah". Real, true love is like the constancy of the sun that comes up slowly every morning - sometimes too hot; sometimes hidden behind the clouds, but always there. Therefore, often take for granted.
Lucille Anderson
#50. We don't have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas memories in the present for the future.
Tom North
#51. A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
Lucille Ball
#52. I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
#53. Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
Lucille Ball
#54. I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.
Robert Osborne
#55. My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family ...
Lucille Kallen
#56. I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
Lucille Clifton
#57. The more things you do, the more things you can do.
Lucille Ball
#58. This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#59. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
#60. Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#61. I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.
Lucille Ball
#62. I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball
#63. During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#64. I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille.
Jessica Walter
#68. I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.
Lucille Clifton
#69. I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't.
Lucille Ball
#70. My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the
planner and the dreamer.
Lucille Ball
#71. We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace.
Lucille Clifton
#72. Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!
Lucille Kallen
#73. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball
#74. TV actress Lucille Ball once remarked, 'I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I've not done.' This
Ashwin Sanghi
#75. Tell the truth ... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.
Lucille Clifton
#76. Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the weekend. There's no question about that. There's only a question about this: What about a woman who works all week?
Lucille Kallen
#77. I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. 'Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn't like that, does Clown?' Always 'Clown.' Never a name.
June Diane Raphael
#78. People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
Lucille Ball
#79. My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
Marlon Wayans
#80. Connie, giving her thoughts on why Vinnie's hot temper is less than normal, says: Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning.
Janet Evanovich
#81. Was my first landscape, red brown as the clay of her georgia.
Lucille Clifton
#82. Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.
Lucille Kallen
#83. When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#84. The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
Ellen DeGeneres
#85. And at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me.
Lucille Clifton
#86. Lucille, please make them go away!" she moaned, her voice muffled.
"Do you think I am a divine being sent from the celestial realm to guard you from the harsh punishment of rousing from your slumber?"
"Is that a yes?"
"I am surrounded by idiots.
Erica Sehyun Song
#87. You think they let you have sex in the old people's home?" Lucille asked Callie. "Because I'd really miss it.
Jill Shalvis
#88. There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done.
Carol Burnett
#89. Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
Lucille Ball
#90. One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.
Bob Hope
#91. I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.
Ben Stiller
#92. You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.
Lucille Clifton
#93. I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy.
Garry Marshall
#94. Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Lucille Clifton
#95. I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
Lucille Clifton
#96. At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told her that if I had her looks and talent, I'd keep me and fire the agent!
Vivian Vance
#97. We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#98. I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.
Lucille Ball
#100. When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.
Lucille Ball
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