Top 100 Quotes About Edna
#1. We have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?
Edna O'Brien
#3. On and on eternally
Shall your altered fluid run,
Bud and bloom and go to seed;
But your singing days are done
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#4. But you were something more than young and sweet
And fair, - and the long year remembers you.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#5. There'll always be Christmas as long as a light
Glows in the window to guide folks at night,
As long as a star in the heavens above,
Keeps shining down ... there'll be Christmas and love.
Edna Jaques
#7. Mrs. Pontellier gave over being astonished, and concluded that wonders would never cease.
Kate Chopin
#8. But we want young men. Romance. Love and things, I said, despondently.
Edna O'Brien
#9. The first thing one must want, in order to gain anything, is to be himself gaining. Don't confuse sterile wishing with true wanting.
Edna Robinson
#11. The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed
uprooted-
We shall not feel it again.
We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#12. Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.
Edna Ferber
#14. But the roaring of the fire,
And the warmth of fur,
And the boiling of the kettle
Were beautiful to her!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#15. Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
Edna Buchanan
#16. In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.
Edna Buchanan
#17. All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.
Edna Ferber
#18. It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#19. Heart, have no pity on this house of bone:
Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#21. Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided.
Kate Chopin
#22. As one looks with the beautiful eyes upon a soul ... Only God is perfect
Edna Stewart
#24. Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated ... , and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character, Selina said.
Edna Ferber
#25. It's been my experience," observed Emma McChesney, "that when a firm condescends to pay a woman twice as much as a man, that means she's worth six times as much.
Edna Ferber
#26. Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#27. Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.
Edna Ferber
#28. The place was stifling. Suddenly it occurred to her that a trace of him still lurked in her, minute and spectral, that effluvial stain that would be her stigmata forever. It was then that she resolved to ask for an appointment to see him, as things had to be settled between them.
Edna O'Brien
#29. A stony road, hard on the feet. I would beg for us to sit down but you discouraged it, knowing that sitting was fatal, because of the willpower required to get up again.
Edna O'Brien
#30. I'm going to walk out and bang the door hard
Edna
#32. Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.
Edna O'Brien
#33. Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#34. Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#37. People liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.
Edna O'Brien
#38. It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times together and the times apart, the sense of being excluded.
Edna O'Brien
#39. Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.
Edna Ferber
#41. Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
Edna Ferber
#42. My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage
#43. You might have written. Every bit of your daily life interests me. I wrote this day fortnight but it was returned. Tampered with.
Edna O'Brien
#45. Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.
Edna O'Brien
#46. If I love one lover,...I have loved many more.
Edna Stewart
#48. Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferber
#49. Lost in Hell,-Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#51. A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Edna Ferber
#52. suddenly the window flew open, swung back and forth on its hinges, as if something was about to come in, and she waited in dread for what that something might be.
Edna O'Brien
#53. We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#54. Gabriel, the man she might have tied the knot with except that it was not meant to be. Putting memories to sleep, like putting an animal down.
Edna O'Brien
#55. Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.
Edna Buchanan
#56. If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Edna Ferber
#57. Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#58. Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#59. Edna had once told Madame Ratignolle that she would never sacrifice herself for her children; or for anyone.
I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.
Kate Chopin
#60. Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Edna Ferber
#61. Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
Dame Edna Everage
#62. If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.
Edna O'Brien
#64. The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.
Edna Ferber
#65. There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.
Edna O'Brien
#66. True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan
#69. It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.
Edna O'Brien
#70. The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
Edna Ferber
#71. Her eyes like the ideal
geography book:
maps of pure nightmare.
"The Ghost of Edna Lieberman
Roberto Bolano
#73. Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.
Edna Ferber
#74. You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.
Edna Buchanan
#75. You can run, but what are you running from? Your life? You can't run away from your life.
Edna Ferber
#77. I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand ... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.
Edna O'Brien
#78. Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
Edna Ferber
#79. There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics.
Dame Edna Everage
#81. Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note
In me a beauty that was never mine,
How first you knew me in a book I wrote,
How first you loved me for a written line ...
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#83. I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.
Edna O'Brien
#84. Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.
Edna Ferber
#85. We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable ...
Edna O'Brien
#86. As a physician, David had private recognition, but he craved public approval. Mrs. Roosevelt had public recognition, but she craved intimacy. Each satisfied the other's hunger for acceptance. It was a fair exchange.
Edna P. Gurewitsch
#88. Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.
Edna O'Brien
#89. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.
Kate Chopin
#90. It's not the error in the book, it's the thought that counts.
Edna Stewart
#91. What can I give for
Your knowledge
Of when to expand
And when to contract -
This instructed, more academic college
Of when to act?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#92. A work is completed without deference to a husband, an absurd epic of maudlin childhood is about to be sent to a pimp, before a husband is allowed to correct it," he said seething. "You would only tinker with it," she said fearless, though fearing.
Edna O'Brien
#93. After we had drunk the sherry I bought cider for us, and we were a little tipsy as we swayed on the high stools and looked out at the rain as it fell on the fields that shot past the train. But being tipsy we did not see very much and the rain did not touch us.
Edna O'Brien
#94. Sweat and blood and health and youth go into every cabbage. Did you know that, Julie? One doesn't despise them as food, knowing that.
Edna Ferber
#98. Celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.
Edna Ferber
#99. There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor ... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places ...
Edna Walling
#100. Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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