Top 100 Quotes About Fay
#1. Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
Fay Wray
#2. Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Fay Weldon
#3. There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
Fay Wray
#4. I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Fay Wray
#5. William James said, "You cannot travel without until you have travelled within." Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." People who discover their sweet spot are people who take the inward journey and examine themselves. They make the choice to live until they die.
Scott M. Fay
#6. During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.
Fay Weldon
#7. His appearance projected danger and reinforced the common knowledge that one did not want to piss off a demon, especially this one.
Kiersten Fay
#8. You are the most powerful army in the world; you are the future of this planet. You cannot, you will not spend one more minute of your time looking in a mirror wishing you looked different.
Jamie Le Fay
#9. I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
Fay Vincent
#10. She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry.
Fay Weldon
#11. By and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
Fay Weldon
#12. I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.
Andrea Fay Friedman
#13. I need men to define me: to give me an idea of what I am. If I didn't have boyfriends I don't think I would exist. I would fly apart in all directions. So I must live my life in perpetual pain, if I want to live at all.
Fay Weldon
#14. It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
Fay Wray
#15. I can't get enough of you," he said against her neck. "When I walk away from you I feel like I've cut myself off from breathing.
Thea Harrison
#16. Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ...
Fay Weldon
#17. You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes.
Jamie Le Fay
#18. For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
Fay Wray
#19. So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.
Fay Weldon
#20. By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images.
Fay Chung
#21. I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.
Fay Wray
#22. The pursuit and preservation of purity can drive prejudice and hate. Many crimes against humanity have been committed in its name. Purity is best applied to water.
Jamie Le Fay
#23. Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
Fay Weldon
#24. When you don't go to the park or to the beach because you are ashamed of how you look, remember the girls and boys that live in war-torn countries that are not allowed the joys of outdoors fun.
Jamie Le Fay
#25. Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
Fay Weldon
#26. She relaxed a bit - well, as much as one could relax while being half-naked and bleeding in front of a vampire. She was the picture of a tasty meal to one such as he.
Kiersten Fay
#27. Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, 'I've been waiting to meet you for half my life.'
Fay Wray
#28. Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.
Fay Weldon
#29. That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
Fay Wray
#30. Who you are has little to do with how you look. You are what you know, what you can do, the impact you have delivered, and the collection of experiences in your meaningful life.
Jamie Le Fay
#31. There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
Fay Weldon
#32. It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.
Fay Weldon
#33. The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that cigarette. There was a movie going on right under his nose and he didn't even know. The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it.
Rupert Thomson
#34. There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon
#35. A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.
Fay Weldon
#36. I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.
Fay Weldon
#37. Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
Fay Weldon
#38. I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
Fay Weldon
#39. A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#40. Her heavy breathing echoed off the thick walls, her body frozen in shock, but when Marik reappeared in the mouth of the cave, she reached for the sword. He was still in a state of bloodlust and was, what she could only describe as, stalking her.
Kiersten Fay
#41. Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.
Fay Weldon
#42. I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.
Fay Weldon
#43. Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?
Fay Weldon
#44. You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.
Fay Weldon
#45. Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that's based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#46. When she's in the same room as you, she commands your full attention." "Is it that obvious?" "It couldn't have been more obvious if you had painted this is my mate on your forehead with an arrow pointing to Anya.
Kiersten Fay
#47. I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.
Fay Weldon
#48. Only in your imagination can you revise.
Fay Wray
#49. Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
Fay Godwin
#50. It was a war, and in a war there are always casualties. Never winners, but always plenty of casualties."
-- Nenya, The Water Warrior
Mili Fay
#51. The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life,
Mildred Fay Jefferson
#52. Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.
Fay Weldon
#53. I'm not a pet, and I don't need anybody's seed.
Jamie Le Fay
#54. Too many people surrender to a place of safety. That place where all they do is long to sleep so they can dream about living.
Kim Fay
#55. Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay Weldon
#56. Looks are worth nothing, she thought, dismissing the butterflies in her stomach.
Jamie Le Fay
#57. I'm in love with you, Rosemary Rose. Madly and irrevocably in love. What do you propose to do about it?
Fay Chandos
#58. One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
Fay Weldon
#59. The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
Fay Weldon
#60. Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
Fay Weldon
#61. With her face tilted up to his, the subtle edge of moonlight touched along the edge of one high cheekbone, the tilted edge of one eye, and those beautiful, enticing lips. Obeying an impulse he couldn't put into words, he lowered his head and covered her mouth with his.
Thea Harrison
#62. One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits.
Fay Weldon
#63. I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
Fay Godwin
#64. As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.
Fay Weldon
#65. All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.
Fay Weldon
#66. The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
James Tobin
#67. Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
Fay Weldon
#68. Humph,' he said, with a disagreeable air, 'the universe does its work very quietly.' ("The Bogey Man")
A.E. Coppard
#69. I don't see how being handsome can possibly harm a man. It's just another cheap privilege that took zero effort to attain.
Jamie Le Fay
#70. The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffere everything.
Fay Weldon
#72. The body - objectified, sexualised, feared, hunted, worshiped - always the body, they adored him or hated him before they ever knew him. The body crushed him; he was its slave. He felt empty, reduced to a soulless thing.
Jamie Le Fay
#73. When they would spar, Calic held nothing back, as if he possessed a deep rage clawing for release. He demonstrated a ferocity Sebastian had never seen the likes of. Sebastian had the same rage bubbling inside him. However, he was able to hone it differently by focusing on the survival of his crew
Kiersten Fay
#74. Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
Fay Weldon
#75. Whore,' he cried. Well, she was not his wife, yet she slept with him. She lived in sin. What else but a whore did that make her; and what did her whoredom make of Ben?
Fay Weldon
#76. proudly. "One of the most dangerous assumptions we tend to repeatedly make is that of final achievement. There is never final achievement One Like Jade. There is completion within cycles, which only leads us to another set of cycles at a slightly higher level.
Denise Le Fay
#77. I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
Fay Godwin
#78. How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?
Fay Weldon
#79. My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
Fay Wray
#80. To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
Fay Weldon
#81. It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
Fay Vincent
#82. They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.
Fay Wray
#83. You shouldn't keep other people's phallic symbols on the mantelpiece.
Fay Weldon
#84. When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?
Fay Wray
#85. She hoped he could move on one day and find happiness. He had the luxury to try. She hoped he would succeed.
Be happy for the both of us.
As it was, she would never forget him. The memory of their time together she will cherish always, even as it eats away at her sanity.
Kiersten Fay
#86. People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
Fay Weldon
#88. The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself ... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
Fay Weldon
#89. I think it's important to go (to church every Sunday) and sit and think about something other than yourself, pray for the sick, consider the dead.
Fay Weldon
#90. All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!
Lewis Carroll
#91. For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.
Fay Ripley
#92. Loving is upsetting. That's the point of it.
Fay Weldon
#93. People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.
Fay Weldon
#94. Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.
Fay Wray
#95. Lifting his head, he whispered against her wet, throbbing lips, "Too much?"
Wasn't that sweet,
Consider even.
But oh, hell no.
She gasped, "Not enough.
Thea Harrison
#96. You have never loved me as I love you
never
never! Yours is not a passionate heart
your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite
not a woman!
Thomas Hardy
#97. Space was a hostile environment that required a sharp and cunning mind over prestige any day. That, and a shit load of weapons.
Kiersten Fay
#98. Memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
Fay Weldon
#99. Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.
Fay Weldon
#100. We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, marry the wrong man because we cannot let ourselves be happy, board the wrong train because we would prefer not to reach the destination.
Fay Weldon
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