Quotes About Frances Farmer

#1. I got ice in my veins
Blood in my eyes/Hate in my heart
Love in my mind

Lil' Wayne

#2. I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

Zubin Mehta

#3. A competitive society is a society of envy.

Dorothee Solle

#4. Have you ever had a broken heart?

Frances Farmer

#5. I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was ... nothingness.

Frances Farmer

#6. Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Giles Foden

#7. The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Frances Farmer

#8. If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

Frances Farmer

#9. But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

Frances Farmer

#10. I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

Frances Farmer

#11. I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

Frances Farmer

#12. The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

Frances Farmer

#13. I miss the comfort in being sad,

Frances Farmer

#14. If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

Frances Farmer

#15. There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

Frances Farmer

#16. I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

Frances Farmer

#17. I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

Frances Farmer

#18. I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

Frances Farmer

#19. As he expressed these ideas he followed them with his eyes, watching them gallop away to the place where they made sense.

Denis Johnson

#20. I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

Frances Farmer

#21. Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy.

Eugene O'Neill

#22. The Lord saved my soul.

Steve Harvey

#23. Forget politics, his father had always said. Just give 'em something they need, or they'll eat you alive.

Joe Schreiber

#24. When everything comes easily to you, it never challenges you to change.

Katie Kacvinsky

#25. I will continue modeling until they don't want me anymore basically because I do love it very much.

Claudia Schiffer

#26. Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

Ann Patchett

#27. There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. Find a quiet place, and just read. If you're reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader.
Then you settle into the reading, and enjoy it. Bask in the luxury of reading without distractions.

Leo Babauta

#29. I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Frances Farmer

#30. When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.

Thomas P. Campbell

#31. I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

Frances Farmer

#32. It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

Frances Farmer

#33. That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

Frances Farmer