Ziegfeld Girl Quotes

#1. She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally's fresh cup of coffee.

Libba Bray

#2. Every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

George Orwell

#3. Well, the comic book and me, just us, we caught the bus.

Bob Dylan

#4. It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD c and their vindication [5] from me, declares the LORD.

Anonymous

#6. How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

Samuel R. Delany

#7. Q: What literary complexities do you find most interesting? That is, what do you like most to "solve," so to speak, as a novelist?
A: One wishes to create characters who will speak directly to the minds of comparative literature professors and intelligent book reviewers.

Gilbert Sorrentino

#8. Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.

Will Shetterly

#9. Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#10. We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

Samuel Johnson

#11. Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
Condescendingly.
Take a seat.
Take your life.
Plot it out in black and white.

John Mayer

#12. When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

Robyn Davidson

#13. Ideals make reason inaccessible.

Floriano Martins

#14. But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#15. The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.

Woody Allen

#16. How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#17. Hi tooti-pie. Everything under control?

W.C. Fields

#18. Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

James Q. Wilson

#19. It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

Florenz Ziegfeld