Top 100 Pauline's 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. 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
#53. If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
Pauline Kael
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.
Pauline Marois
#57. Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts - it's when those who shouldn't, do.
Pauline Kael
#58. 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
#59. What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
Pauline Kael
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves, and in Khaemwaset's gardens the vivid clusters of flowers had begun to bloom with an abandon that assaulted the eyes and filled the nostrils with delight.
Pauline Gedge
#63. The word "open" and the expression "opening her legs" were, on her lover's lips, charged with such uneasiness and power that she could never hear them without experiencing a kind of internal prostration, a sacred submission, as though a god, and not he, had spoken to her.
Pauline Reage
#64. I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
Pauline Hanson
#65. Our little ford was almost ready. She was later to be called Auntie after Gertrude Stein's aunt Pauline who always behaved admirably in emergencies and behaved fairly well most times if she was properly flattered.
Gertrude Stein
#66. I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.
Pauline Hanson
#67. We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.
Pauline Collins
#68. There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer ... I had two small children and a mother, and we all had to eat. That's the drive I had.
Pauline Trigere
#69. I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.
Pauline Collins
#70. The leader's prayer written by Pauline H. Peters: God, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.
John C. Maxwell
#71. I love you, do whatever you want with me, but don't leave me, for God's sake don't leave me. Who
Pauline Reage
#72. I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.
Pauline Marois
#73. I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#74. In show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.
Pauline Kael
#75. There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.
Pauline Kael
#76. Nobody really controls a production, now; the director is on his own, even if he's insecure, careless, or nuts.
Pauline Kael
#77. In old age her voice had become thin as a bird's, but her reading was still beautiful to him.
Pauline Smith
#78. What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.
Pauline Kael
#79. Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty.
Pauline Melville
#80. For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
Pauline Kael
#81. I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC's Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#83. As a matter of fact," the other voice went on, "if you do tie her up from time to time, or whip her just a little, and she begins to like it, that's no good either. You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
Pauline Reage
#84. Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.
Pauline Collins
#85. Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.
Pauline Kael
#86. Not only had its expression, as he spoke of Pauline, been that of a stuffed frog with a touch of the Soul's Awakening about it, but it
P.G. Wodehouse
#87. Considering what Pauline's been through ... " Will began, then stopped himself. "She's not very nice."
"She's a cold-blooded bitch."
"I'm surprised I haven't fallen in love with her.
Karin Slaughter
#88. You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better.
Pauline Marois
#89. If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.
Pauline Kael
#90. Noon was approaching and the shadows under the sycamores were thin and short. The surface of the blue-tiled fish-pond was glassily still and water splashed monotonously into the fountain's basins. Khaemwaset held his fingers under the glittering flow and found it silky and warm.
Pauline Gedge
#91. Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#92. Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.
Leslie Carroll
#93. There's one thing anyway I want you to tell her, and tell her right away, and that is that I'm in love with her." "Is that true?
Pauline Reage
#94. There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy ... Well that's a myth.
Pauline Marois
#95. The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#96. Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.
Pauline Hanson
#97. One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians ... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.
Pauline Marois
#98. === God's deposit is great inside u, the prophet only calls it out
Ikechukwu Joseph
#99. I joined the PQ in the 1970s because of the issue of sovereignty. And that's why I wake up in the morning. A woman who gives birth to a country, that would be interesting.
Pauline Marois
#100. The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness is.
Pauline Foster - " The Ballad of Tom Dooley ", Sharyn McCrumb, p. 271
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