Top 100 Nellie's Quotes
#1. Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?"
Dan grinned. "I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer.
Gordon Korman
#2. It makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
Nellie L. McClung
#3. That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.
Nellie L. McClung
#4. I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.
Nellie McKay
#5. In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold.
Nellie Bly
#7. Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Nellie L. McClung
#8. In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.
Nellie McKay
#9. Less money for public media means less access to the arts.
Nellie McKay
#10. You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.
Gordon Korman
#11. Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris.
"Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.
Rick Riordan
#12. Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
Nellie L. McClung
#13. My dear children!"
Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack.
"Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye.
"Nellie!" Amy said.
"Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.
Rick Riordan
#14. A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.
Nellie L. McClung
#15. Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!"
Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers.
"Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?
Rick Riordan
#17. It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Nellie Bly
#18. I'm pretty indiscriminating, and I have awful taste, generally.
Nellie McKay
#19. I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
Nellie L. McClung
#20. One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
Nellie Melba
#21. We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.
Nellie L. McClung
#22. I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.
Nellie McKay
#23. Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
Nellie L. McClung
#24. But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.
Nellie Bly
#26. They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly
#27. When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
Parvesh Cheena
#28. ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.
Nellie Bly
#29. In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
Nellie McKay
#30. That's the most sexist idea I've ever heard," Nellie said harshly. "I'm female, so I have to be clueless. He's male, so he's got a great sense of direction.
Gordon Korman
#31. Then again, if you opinions on women prevent me from carrying out my work, then I would be more than happy to suggest a place for you to stuff them... You're the bos... but YOU seem to be the brains. It's Abigail Rook, yes? Mind if I call you Abbie? Lovely. - Nellie
William Ritter
#32. I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
Nellie Bly
#33. Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
Nellie Melba
#34. The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
Nellie Bly
#35. How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
Nellie Bly
#36. You won't be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don't worry! It's a good sign!
Nellie Melba
#37. The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.
Nellie McKay
#38. You don't have to be big to be a big leaguer. Look at Phil Rizzuto. He's really small and he's been one of the greatest that ever was.
Nellie Fox
#39. The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.
Nellie McKay
#40. Pony eyed the pitcher of hot fudge sauce Nellie had placed on the table. "And if you pass that pitcher, I will reveal a nugget of information that will please you and instantly return me to your good goddess graces."
Nellie pushed the pitcher forward. "Spill. Not the fudge sauce. The info.
Jude Watson
#41. On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt.
Nellie Fox
#42. That's it. Gently now," Reagan said to Nellie. "We'll move onto the hard stuff tomorrow."
"This ... isn't ... the hard stuff?" Nellie spit out through gritted teeth.
Reagan grinned. "You really hate me right now, don't you?"
"Immeasurably."
"Good. Give me ten.
Jude Watson
#43. There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.
Nellie Melba
#44. If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.
Nellie Melba
#45. If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
Nellie Melba
#46. You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.
Nellie McKay
#47. I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track.
Nellie McKay
#48. Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale.
Peter Lerangis
#49. I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.
Red Schoendienst
#50. If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.
Nellie Fox
#51. Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world."
"Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike."
The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.
Gordon Korman
#52. Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
Nellie Bly
#53. Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.
Nellie L. McClung
#54. There are boys who will make you cry, and then there are boys who are worth spending your fabulous energy on.
Clifford Riley
#55. I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.
Nellie Bly
#56. Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.
Nellie McKay
#57. You didn't have to rip my dress," she said plaintively when he let her breathe. "I love this one. Nellie worked on it for days." "I'm sorry, lass," he said somberly. " 'Twas an accident, lass. Sometimes I forget my strength. I mean to be gentle but it doesn't come out that way. Can you forgive me?
Karen Marie Moning
#58. I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.
Nellie Bly
#59. If you run out on Nellie, what will you say when you meet God?"
George swore, laughed, shook his head. "I'll say 'Just send me on to hell. That's where all my friends are, anyway.
Stephanie Grace Whitson
#60. I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.
Nellie McKay
#61. I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.
Nellie Bly
#62. And you used my heart as a Kleenex," Nellie sang. "But you're the one full of snot!
Clifford Riley
#63. I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.
Nellie Bly
#64. All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
Nellie Bly
#65. If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.
Nellie McKay
#66. It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.
Nellie McKay
#67. Thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
Nellie L. McClung
#68. No one had to tell me I was never going to be a home run hitter. I was hitting the same ball as the rest of the players, but when the big guys cracked one, it went out of the park. Mine went out of the infield.
Nellie Fox
#70. Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet ...
Nellie L. McClung
#71. My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.
Nellie McKay
#72. I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said ...
Nellie L. McClung
#73. What is the point of fainting into a man's arms if you are not conscious to enjoy it?
Marie Silk
#74. Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.
Jude Watson
#75. There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.
Nellie McKay
#76. 'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'
Nellie Bly
#77. By nice women ... you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.
Nellie L. McClung
#78. I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.
Nellie McKay
#79. We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.
Nellie Fox
#80. With flamenco I was transported into a world where everyone is beautiful, because beauty is in everything, the glorious and the ugly; because flamenco celebrates living, through the cries of pain and the cries of joy, the symmetry of a young face and the character of an old face.
Nellie Bennett
#81. The fact that Nellie wasn't any one person but rather a composite of three of the real Laura's antagonists' worst traits makes her even more terrifying, some kind of blond Frankenstein assembled from assorted bitch parts.
Wendy McClure
#82. My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay
Larry Smith
#83. I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.
Nellie McKay
#84. I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.
Nellie McKay
#85. Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.
Nellie Bly
#86. Lovely," Nellie whispered. "A double-crosser wouldn't spend all this time gardening and planting flowers, would they?"
...
Sinead Starling opened the door.
"Ah," Nellie said. "I guess I was wrong.
Jude Watson
#87. All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.
Nellie Fox
#89. You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.
Nellie McKay
#90. I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!
Nellie McKay
#91. Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.
Nellie Fox
#92. Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home'
John Wooden
#93. Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.
Nellie L. McClung
#94. I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.
Nellie Bly
#95. On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.
Nellie Fox
#96. only she could fix her problems with a needle and thread she'd be set. Nellie looked up from the socks she was darning toward the knocking on the front door. Who could
Cynthia Woolf
#97. And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said. (page 69)
Kate DiCamillo
#98. (Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.
Nellie Fox
#99. You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.
Nellie McKay
#100. I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.
Nellie Bly
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