Top 100 Quotes About Shirley
#1. There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.
Shirley Maclaine
#2. Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
Shirley Maclaine
#3. Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.
J.K. Rowling
#4. It was the first genuinely shining day of summer, a time of year which brought Eleanor always to aching memories of her early childhood, when it seemed to be summer all the time; she could not remember a winter before father's death on a cold wet day.
Shirley Jackson
#5. Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Katharine Hepburn
#6. We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.
Shirley Franklin
#7. [L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch ...
Shirley Jackson
#8. Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.
Shirley Maclaine
#9. I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.
Shirley Knight
#10. The last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more than five months overdue, and I wondered whether I would have chosen differently if I had known that these were the last books, the ones which would stand forever on our kitchen shelf.
Shirley Jackson
#11. The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.
Shirley Williams
#12. I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
John Shirley
#13. Although she would sooner have given up thinking than eating, she resented being pushed into depriving herself of either.
Shirley Jackson
#14. You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly.
Shirley Jackson
#15. I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.
Shirley Manson
#16. My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.
Shirley Knight
#17. Therefore it was not pride that took me into the village twice a week, or even stubbornness, but only the simple need for books and food.
Shirley Jackson
#18. I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.
Shirley Manson
#19. Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
Shirley Hufstedler
#20. I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.
Shirley Eaton
#21. Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.
Shirley Jackson
#22. You are an enchanting person, rather old fashioned for this modern world, but very enchanting and pleasing.
Shirley Sealy
#23. Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?
Shirley Jackson
#24. All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.
Shirley Jackson
#25. We can't always take the most obvious road in life.
Anne Shirley
#26. Why do women always look so funny alone at night? she thought. I guess you're so used to seeing them with someone.
Shirley Jackson
#27. Don't look back in life and have regrets. Go for your goal!
Shirley Bourrage
#28. It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87]
Shirley Hazzard
#29. even opened the box?" She parked her fists on her trim little hips. "I have had a very bad day." "Well, so have I." He grinned. "But you just made me laugh, so it's starting to improve." She gave him a glare. "I don't find this funny." He raised the can
Shirley Jump
#30. It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy.
Shirley Manson
#31. In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.
Shirley Manson
#32. Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn
#33. Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.
Shirley Maclaine
#34. It was he who needed to make it happen. It was he who would have to come to the realization that he could never make one woman completely happy if he could not choose that one woman over so many. He was not ready. The
Shirley Dieu
#35. I clear breakfast at ten o'clock. I set on lunch at one. Dinner I set on at six. It's ten o'clock.
Shirley Jackson
#36. I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
Shirley Hazzard
#37. Solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public ... [p. 7]
Shirley Hazzard
#38. The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
Shirley Temple
#39. I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not.
Shirley Tallman
#40. Losing your innocence has very little to do with virginity, you know. Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed. So different from one's nursery stories." She
Shirley Conran
#43. When women are stressed, they either eat too much and get fat, or they eat not so much and get thin, and the latter is what happens to me.
Shirley Eaton
#44. Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
Shirley Manson
#45. Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.
Victor LaValle
#46. All cat stories start with this statement: My mother, who was the first cat, told me this ...
Shirley Jackson
#47. There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.
Shirley Temple
#48. I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of existence may lie before me. How am I to occupy it? What am I to do to fill the interval of time which spreads between me and the grave?
Charlotte Bronte
#49. My cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.
Joan Rivers
#51. Garner had to search for his little girl in this endless sea of irrelevancy and indifference and preoccupied people and deteriorating places. This is crazy, this is hopeless ...
John Shirley
#52. I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.
Shirley Manson
#53. Everyone was always in danger, after all. From cancer, from car crashes and plane crashes, from criminals. Most people managed denial; managed to pretend they were safe.
John Shirley
#54. I'll tell you why I'm Shirley," Count Olaf said. "I'm Shirley because I would like to be called Shirley, and it is impolite not to do so.
Lemony Snicket
#55. When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.
Shirley Henderson
#56. When we behave naturally, others relax and relationships are formed or strengthened.
Shirley Corder
#58. Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. List to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
Shirley Chisholm
#59. When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm
#60. I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.
Shirley Chisholm
#61. You don't give your mum enough credit for raising you, Elle. Look at you. Teenage sweetheart with a sugar shell and strychnine centre. We might as well finish speaking the truth now.
Shirley Marr
#62. A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing
articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.
Shirley Hazzard
#64. You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.
Shirley Maclaine
#65. But that's a way to go on loving
a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in the state of missing, is sometimes the simplest way to preserve love. [p. 56]
Shirley Hazzard
#68. The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Hufstedler
#69. In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.
Shirley Bassey
#70. It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.
Shirley Jones
#71. The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
#72. Anne Shirley, how often have I told you never to let one of those Italians in the house! I don't believe in encouraging them to come around at all.
L.M. Montgomery
#73. Baine was controlling her passion, curbing it from a destructive wild-natured thing, to something beautiful and wonderful. For the countless time since his arrival, Ivy found herself not caring about anything else. All she wanted was for the mouth dance to continue. Forever.
Shirley Bourget
#74. What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.
Shirley Hazzard
#75. Rationalization: This is a close cousin of intellectualization. It occurs when we are so afraid of feeling pain, disappointment, or guilt that we make up a logical argument to reduce these feelings.
Shirley Impellizzeri
#76. Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn't become the victim of one instead. I don't care what anyone says. I believe him.
Shirley Marr
#77. Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
Shirley Knight
#78. I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'
Shirley Strickland
#79. No matter where you go, no matter where you live, a Kansas fan is a Kansas fan: implacable, insufferable and perfectly happy to stay that way.
Paul Shirley
#80. I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.
Leslie Mann
#81. Stick to the needle, learn shirt-making and gown-making and piecrust-making, and you will be a clever woman some day.
Charlotte Bronte
#82. I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
Shirley Maclaine
#83. Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and comedians. You'd go in and Tom Jones might be singing, or Shirley Bassey or Engelbert Humperdinck.
Francis Lee
#84. I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.
Shirley Maclaine
#85. If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.
Shirley Manson
#86. I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
Imelda May
#87. Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
Shirley Jackson
#88. Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.
Anne Lamott
#89. I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.
Shirley Brice Heath
#90. Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.
Shirley Maclaine
#91. I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.
John Shirley
#92. The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.
Shirley Manson
#93. People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.
Shirley Manson
#94. I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.
Shirley Jones
#95. I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
Shirley Manson
#96. I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.
Shirley Manson
#98. We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.
Shirley Williams
#99. To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.
Shirley Maclaine
#100. It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.
Shirley Manson
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