Top 73 Tilly Quotes
#2. What would ever become of Tilly-Valley's religion in that world, with headlights flashing along cemented highways, and all existence dominated by electricity? What would become of old women reading by candlelight? What would become of his own life-illusion, his secret 'mythology,' in such a world?
John Cowper Powys
#3. You'll understand as you get older. You can spot them a mile off, You'll learn to cross the street.' [...] 'Perhaps that's why they don't mix,' said Tilly, 'because everyone else is on the other side of the street?
Joanna Cannon
#4. James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.
Mike Jay
#5. As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
Tananarive Due
#6. good at.' Cressida turned and looked at Tilly.'Don't think that on Monday we will be instafriends because of this.' 'Totally. I actually really dislike you,' slurred Tilly,
Kate Forster
#7. He can give you one thing, Tilly, - the pleasure of doing good. That is one of the sweetest things in life; and the poor can enjoy it as well as the rich.
Louisa May Alcott
#8. God, save me from temperance," Tilly said. "You haven't seen a party till you get a group of Anglicans and Catholics trying to beat each other to the bottom of a bottle."
"Now, that's not nice, Mrs Fagan," Father Michel said. "I've never met an Anglican that could keep up with me.
James S.A. Corey
#9. I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.
Angelina Jolie
#10. Tilly was downcast; as with all perfectionists, it was the detail others might not notice that destroyed for her the pleasure of achievement.
Elspeth Huxley
#11. Tilly screamed. Anna's shocked brain only registered annoyance at the sound. Really, when had someone screaming ever solved a problem? She recognized her fixation on this irritation as her own way of avoiding the horror in front of her, but only in a distant and dreamy sort of way.
James S.A. Corey
#12. The only thing she and Tilly had in common was their carbon base.
James S.A. Corey
#13. At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of the south London parish of Camberwell. He had a wife and a young family. He appeared to be of unsound mind.
Mike Jay
#14. Annie," Tilly said. "If I wanted to suck vile fluids out of a flaccid and indifferent tube, I'd have stayed on Earth with my husband.
James S.A. Corey
#15. The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down public institution, its building falling apart and its professional image tarnished.
Mike Jay
#16. London November 1912 Heather Farm Grasmere Westmorland Dear Tilly, I hope you and your sister
Hazel Gaynor
#17. Without delay, Tilly entered the ninth opening, a number that she knew from Baraccus had great meaning on things having to do with magic.
Terry Goodkind
#18. I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.
April Bowlby
#19. This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understand
how war promises a boy it can make a man out of him.
Richard Peck
#20. These are the cafeteria ladies. I call them Millie, Billie, and Tilly. I think they're part of a government program to get rid of the middle school population in this country, one lunch at a time.
James Patterson
#21. I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different ... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.
Meg Tilly
#22. I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.
Jennifer Tilly
#23. No one could have called him handsome, and the orange waders probably didn't help - but when he smiled? Suddenly handsome didn't seem important anymore - only the things happiness could do to a man's face.
Alexis Hall
#24. Collective violence has flowed regularly out of the central political processes of western countries... The oppressed have struck in the name of justice, the privileged in the name of order, the in-between in the name of fear.
Charles Tilly
#25. There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.
Meg Tilly
#26. Im wearing an outfit that looks just like a cupcake ... a pink frothy blouse, low cut ... everything a little inappropriately girlie ... Pink, pink, lot of pink, ... Out of Practice.
Jennifer Tilly
#27. I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right.
Meg Tilly
#29. Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything exactly as they say. You have to do what feels right.
Jennifer Tilly
#30. I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.
Meg Tilly
#31. I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.
Jennifer Tilly
#32. That is why it's so fun to make movies ... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.
Meg Tilly
#33. Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.
Jennifer Tilly
#35. I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'
Jennifer Tilly
#36. Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway.
Meg Tilly
#37. Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.
Meg Tilly
#38. I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.
Meg Tilly
#40. The person he'd hurt the most though, ultimately, was himself.
It was his dreams that had come to nothing. His future that had folded before his eyes, like a house of cards.
Tilly Bagshawe
#41. It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.
Meg Tilly
#42. I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.'
Jennifer Tilly
#43. You can never go back.Never.Not if you want to survive.
Tilly Bagshawe
#44. Yet in one way or another all of us - readers and writers alike - are ultimately prisoners of the documents. And the chains are hard to see
Charles Tilly
#45. I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.
Jennifer Tilly
#46. If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.
Meg Tilly
#47. I was cut out of The Doors. I was Okie Girl, a groupie. The powers that be thought that my character made Jim Morrison look too sleazy, if you can imagine. I saw the movie-it was so loud I had a headache for three days.
Jennifer Tilly
#48. That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.
Jennifer Tilly
#49. I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.
Meg Tilly
#50. I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am.
Meg Tilly
#51. History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams' prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is an absolute triumph - I loved every page.
Tilly Bagshawe
#52. I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.
Jennifer Tilly
#53. I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint ... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.
Meg Tilly
#54. If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.
Jennifer Tilly
#55. If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.
Jennifer Tilly
#56. A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.
Jennifer Tilly
#57. Once your blood's in the water, everyone's a shark
Tilly Bagshawe
#59. I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in. -Gabriel McGregor
Tilly Bagshawe
#60. Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens ...
Charles Tilly
#61. She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride
Tilly Bagshawe
#62. I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.
Meg Tilly
#63. My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.
Jennifer Tilly
#64. I have nothing intelligent to say.
Meg Tilly
#65. where you live is just geography. And you can't measure happiness in dollars and cents.
Tilly Bagshawe
#66. I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.
Meg Tilly
#67. I'm not apologizing for what I did. I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.
Jennifer Tilly
#68. I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.
Meg Tilly
#69. Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!
Jennifer Tilly
#70. If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
Meg Tilly
#71. I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.
Jennifer Tilly
#72. Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.
Meg Tilly
#73. I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
Meg Tilly
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