Totie Quotes

#1. I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks!
-Totie Fields-

David DeBacco

#2. Honey, that Totie Fields is one well-fed white woman. When that gal sits around the house, she sits around the house!

Moms Mabley

#3. The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns 'to be with Him.'

Pope John Paul II

#4. One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.

Beilby Porteus

#5. Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?

Cornelia Funke

#6. Edwin Yorke was attractive and intelligent and employed--the holy trifecta of good men.

Tiffany Reisz

#7. I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.

Totie Fields

#8. Even with tear gas, tommy guns and a police cordon, there is no way to take a desperate man without risking your life.

Ross Macdonald

#9. When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

Susanna Kearsley

#10. Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

Totie Fields

#11. For the better part of my childhood, my professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess. I didn't care much about ruling hordes of space people. Mostly I wanted to wear the cape and the sexy boots and carry a cool weapon.

Janet Evanovich

#12. Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

Totie Fields

#13. It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

Lawrence R. Klein

#14. It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.

Frank Luntz

#15. I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.

Totie Fields

#16. I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.

Annie Jacobsen

#17. I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

David Carradine

#18. The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

James Purdy

#19. I've waited all my life to say this ... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!

Totie Fields

#20. I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.

Narada Michael Walden

#21. The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

Anne Lamott