Metalious Quotes

#1. Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence.

Grace Metalious

#2. The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

Casey Neistat

#3. I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Grace Metalious

#4. The thing is, I love a celebrity interview. Doesn't matter how big or how small. It could be Hillary Clinton or the guy who made it to the third round of 'Popstars,' I'll read it.

Sharon Horgan

#5. There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.

Astro Teller

#6. An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

Stephen Stills

#7. But as you say in English, c'est la vie!

Jean Louis

#8. How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

Grace Metalious

#9. If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

Grace Metalious

#10. Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.

Grace Metalious

#11. I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.

Grace Metalious

#12. There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years.

Ivica Dacic

#13. We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#14. I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

Grace Metalious

#15. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of a different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

Chuck Klosterman

#16. The public loves to create a hero ... Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

Grace Metalious

#17. Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

Grace Metalious

#18. It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of this time together too short, too quickly gone, yet clearer and more sharply edged than any other.

Grace Metalious

#19. Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

Grace Metalious

#20. Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

Grace Metalious

#21. Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay.

Grace Metalious

#22. Indian summer is like a woman.

Grace Metalious

#23. Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they're bums and kidnappers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track.

Grace Metalious

#24. If every man, ... ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

Grace Metalious

#25. when you start telling a man he's got to do this, that or the other thing, you're coming pretty damned close to infringing on a citizen's rights.

Grace Metalious

#26. So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

W. H. Auden

#27. She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.

Grace Metalious

#28. There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Grace Metalious

#29. Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

Ibn Hazm

#30. Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

Grace Metalious

#31. I'm an enigma, an unknown.

Emmitt Smith

#32. And often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?

Grace Metalious

#33. Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

Lester Bangs

#34. Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

Sydney J. Harris