Top 100 Pauline Quotes
#1. One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Pauline Kael
#2. The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.
Pauline Kael
#3. 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
#4. Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.
Pauline Kael
#5. I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.
Pauline Kael
#6. I don't think I spoil my kids, I'm fairly responsible.
Pauline Quirke
#7. For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.
Pauline Kael
#8. The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.
Pauline Hanson
#9. In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.
Pauline Reage
#10. Pryor's comedy isn't based on suspiciousness about whites, or on anger, either; he's gone way past that. Whites are unbelievable to him.
Pauline Kael
#11. In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Pauline Kael
#12. Your desire to do what you want to do has to be greater than the world's desire to stop you.
Mark Pauline
#13. It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think.
Pauline Hanson
#14. Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.
Pauline Kael
#16. Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
Pauline Kael
#17. I will fight hard to keep my seat in this place, but that will depend on the people who sent me here.
Pauline Hanson
#18. Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.
Pauline Oliveros
#19. Pauline: "All under-fives are mad Adrian, you used to talk to the moon. You invited it to your birthday party and cried when it didn't turn up."
George: "When it went dark and the moon came up, you ran outside and threw a sausage roll at it!
Sue Townsend
#20. Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.
Pauline Kael
#21. I was really a little housewife with two small children, and I had a husband who really didn't want his wife to work. He didn't like the competition. That's why I'm not married to him anymore.
Pauline Trigere
#22. People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.
Pauline Quirke
#23. It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat.
Pauline Quirke
#24. McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.
Pauline Kael
#25. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears
Pauline Oliveros
#26. A country which accepts wars as contests between good and evil is suffering from the delusion that the morality play symbolizes real political conflicts.
Pauline Kael
#27. We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.
Pauline Hanson
#28. Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
Pauline Kael
#29. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Pauline Phillips
#30. No one can buy me. It allows me to devote myself completely to what I do. Knowing that I'm comfortable removes a big burden off my shoulders.
Pauline Marois
#31. I should like to punish myself for having been happy before I met you!
Pauline Reage
#32. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.
Pauline Kael
#33. An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Ida Pauline Rolf
#34. Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms, her feet.
Pauline Fisk
#35. Whatever he wanted of her she wanted too, solely because he was asking it of her.
Pauline Reage
#36. One who has reached a goal no longer travels the road"
(Pauline Christianity, p. 111)
John Ziesler
#37. I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.
Pauline Collins
#38. We could open up a support group."
"I'd rather stick with hot chocolate. All the warmth I need, minus the awkward moments. Oh, and it's sweet. So thanks, but no thanks.
- Maiwenn and Pauline
Natalie Herzer
#39. There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.
Pauline Kael
#40. Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.
Pauline Kael
#41. It was true that she had been passed from hand to hand as often as were the prostitutes in brothels, so why should they treat her otherwise?
Pauline Reage
#42. You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians.
Pauline Marois
#43. The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies
Pauline Kael
#44. Instead of ignoring her infirmity, pretending it was not there, he made it seem like something special and endearing. For the first time Pauline felt that her bad foot was an asset
Toni Morrison
#45. And yet never had she felt herself more totally committed to a will which was not her own, more totally a slave, and more content to be so. When
Pauline Reage
#46. True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Pauline Phillips
#47. Then he took her, and it seemed to O that it had been so long since he had that, subconsciously, she realized she had begun to doubt whether he really desired her any longer, and in his act she saw proof of love.
Pauline Reage
#48. Pauline had once said to me, after she was through the worst of her stunned unhappiness, that if you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be.
Nicci French
#49. Boobs on the make always try to impress with their high level of seriousness (wise guys, with their contempt for all seriousness.
Pauline Kael
#50. For today we hear seemingly normal people, even those with a level head on their shoulders, blithely speaking of love as though it were some frothy feeling of no real consequence.
Pauline Reage
#51. When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.
Pauline Kael
#52. Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.
Pauline Kael
#53. I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.
Pauline Kael
#54. wondering if this was how I was going to end up: eccentric and alone.
Pauline Wiles
#55. If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.
Pauline Kael
#56. Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.
Pauline Collins
#57. The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#58. The anglophones are Quebecers, as are the French, as are the new Quebecers.
Pauline Marois
#59. The sad thing was that Pauline did not really care for clothes and makeup. She merely wanted other women to cast favorable glances her way.
Toni Morrison
#60. Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.
Pauline Kael
#61. I can assure you the hemorrhaging has stopped. I asked remaining caucus members if they adhered to the party program, if they would stay in the PQ and that they would be by my side. They all said yes.
Pauline Marois
#62. When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'
Pauline Neville-Jones
#63. The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.
Pauline Hanson
#64. She did not wish to die, but if torture was the price she had to pay to keep her lover's love, then she only hoped he was pleased that she had endured it. All soft and silent she waited, waited for them to bring her back to him. None
Pauline Reage
#65. My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.
Pauline Oliveros
#66. It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
Pauline Kael
#67. If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
Pauline Kael
#68. I feel like I've joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large.
Theo Pauline Nestor
#69. It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.
Pauline Kael
#71. In the spirit of Trickster, here's to turning representation against itself in the fight for survivance, for f"a new consciousness of coexistence," for a new Turtle Island.
Pauline Turner Strong
#72. If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.
Pauline Marois
#73. If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.
Pauline Hanson
#74. Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts - it's when those who shouldn't, do.
Pauline Kael
#75. Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.
Pauline Kael
#76. Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
Pauline Phillips
#77. You are a man with secrets ... and I plan to know them all.
Pauline Creeden
#78. I'm more influenced by people's attitudes and spirits than by their particular style. Whether it's Elsie de Wolfe or Pauline de Rothschild, I always admire women who had a vision and stuck to it. Because ultimately, the way you live has to be a reflection of you.
Charlotte Moss
#79. For one hit he'd done a version of Victor/Victoria, pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man when he'd been hired to kill a paranoid and heavily guarded government official.
Pauline Baird Jones
#80. A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Pauline Kael
#81. What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
Pauline Kael
#82. We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.
Pauline Hanson
#83. One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#84. Muslims are not compatible with the Australian way of life because they have a different region code
Pauline Hanson
#85. The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you've seen.
Pauline Kael
#86. Thus, he had thrust his hands and sex into her, ransacked and ravaged her mouth and rear, but condescended only to place his lips upon her fingertips.
Pauline Reage
#87. I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great.
Pauline Quirke
#88. The night folded around them with a sweetness and poignancy heightened by the new pale stars that prickled silver fire in the water of the lily ponds, by the scented winds, and by the nearness of each other.
Pauline Gedge
#89. I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints.
Pauline Quirke
#90. This could be a dream,' Phase II said, 'Not one that wakes you up in a panic, but one that makes you never want to wake up at all
Pauline Fisk
#91. Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.
Pauline Frederick
#92. You put up this steel armor around yourself in the form of hostility and disinterest - whichever works to shield you best at the moment, but that's not who you are.
Pauline Creeden
#93. She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them. But,
Pauline Reage
#94. Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#95. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.
Pauline Kael
#96. She felt as though she were a statue of ashes - bitter, useless, damned - like the salt statues of Gomorrah. For she was guilty. Those who love God, and by Him are abandoned in the dark of night, are guilty, because they are abandoned.
Pauline Reage
#97. she lost herself in a delirious absence from herself which restored her to love and, perhaps, brought her to the edge of death.
Pauline Reage
#98. We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.
Pauline Hanson
#99. Finally a woman confesses! Confess what? What women never allowed themselves to confess. What men always criticized on them: they only obey the blood and everything is sex on them, even the spirit.
Pauline Reage
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