Quotes About Salome

#1. Jesus. Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Delilah, Jezebel, Salome, Judith, Eve. Trouble, every last one. Add Minerva Highwood to the list.

Tessa Dare

#2. Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it.

Mike Stoller

#3. It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please" ... Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist ... she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

Jacques Maritain

#4. There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.

Harvey Fierstein

#5. And the funny, impish magic of a wrap party is that everyone still has scraps of their characters hanging off them like Salome's veils, fluttering, fading, but not quite finished tangling the tongue and tripping the feet. You're not in Wonderland anymore, but you positively reek of rabbit.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

Edward Abbey

#7. But this Ruth Mummert...he felt things for her he had never felt for Salome. Was that love, also? If it were, it was like a fire that warmed him and threatened to burn him all at once.

Jan Drexler

#8. After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

Yvonne De Carlo

#9. The future is malleable, and to see it, you just have to listen to history and have a grand enough vision. - Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch - Developmental Genetics

Rachel Swaby

#10. A beautiful, intelligent woman with a body like Salome and a mouth like a saltwater crocodile.

Craig Johnson

#11. Salome dipped an end of the blue shawl into the creek water, wrung it out, and walked back to Margaret. "Lift up yo' skirt. We

Francine Thomas Howard

#12. Everyone believed him of course, but you always knew with Salome that if anyone's head was going to roll it wouldn't be hers.

Margaret Atwood

#13. The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.

Muriel Box

#14. The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#15. The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Oscar Wilde

#16. Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#17. I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.

Bernie Glassman

#18. If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#19. I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

Phil Ochs

#20. Believe me, the world won't give you any gifts. If you want to have a life, steal it.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#21. It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself

Lou Andeas-Salome

#22. Life is the greatest blessed gift.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.

James Gray

#24. What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#25. Sometimes when you hire people who have to pass a Mr. Congeniality test, you end up losing some of the non-conformists who will give you different views and perspectives.

Nolan Bushnell

#26. The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#27. It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Franz Grillparzer

#28. Now I understand that this passion for pain, even in the torture of martyrdom, represents the haste and impatience to no longer be interrupted and disturbed by the evil that can come from this side (meaning this life).

Lou Andreas-Salome

#29. And you're apparently made of mountain. Are you sure you're an engineer and not a lumberjack?

Jenn Bennett

#30. Alex backed away from the table and turned to Laylen. "Are you sure about that?" Laylen shook his head and sighed. "Look, this place is very low key. We'll go straight there and straight back.

Jessica Sorensen

#31. War is the normal state of the people.

Benito Mussolini

#32. Write what you know.

Mark Twain

#33. Obedience, to be perfect, must be voluntary; it must be pure and cheerful. But most of all it must be internal. I would add that it must also be blind and persevering.

Michael Molinos

#34. As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#35. Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

Lou Andreas-Salome