Millicent Rogers Quotes

#1. There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

Iris Apfel

#2. A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
[Letter to the Millicent (Rogers) Library, February 22, 1894]

Mark Twain

#3. His shorts hung low and his sweaty, cut to within an inch of its life, pelvic V muscle, was giving a silent but clear invitation to my tongue.

R.K. Lilley

#4. Because when we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process.

Lawana Blackwell

#5. Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

Galen Rowell

#6. when I was about eleven, I went to stay with Grans in Montauk for four weeks while August was having his big jaw surgery.

R.J. Palacio

#7. Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Stephen King

#8. Unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.

Alexandre Dumas

#9. You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

Virginia Woolf

#10. I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

George Murray

#11. We all laughed, but what I really felt was a sense of claustrophobia, something that had been happening more and more. It was like the city was getting smaller the longer we were there. It was incestuous, the way everyone knew everything about people.

Jennifer Close