Margo Jones Quotes

#1. One pretended not to know that the body of a hostess was at the disposal of all comers, provided that her visiting list showed no gaps.

Marcel Proust

#2. My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Rudy Giuliani

#3. I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

Willie Aames

#4. The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

E.B. White

#5. Food is the daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness, ordained for a continual remembrance that the world will always be more delicious than useful.

Robert Farrar Capon

#6. All life is but a skull-bone and
A rack of ribs through which
we keep passing food & fuel-
just so's we can burn so
furious beautiful.

Jack Kerouac

#7. When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

Madame De Stael

#8. Everything in life is theater.

Margo Jones

#9. A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.

Ram Dass

#10. If you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

Rachel Maddow

#11. I love you, Ryan. You're the only thing i need.

Kahlen Aymes

#12. I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.

Horace Silver

#13. Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

Vladimir Lenin

#14. The answer is simple; if you want something very badly, you can achieve it.

Margo Jones

#15. Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

Roger Scruton

#16. When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I'd move off to some big city.

Donald Ray Pollock

#17. No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel