She Quotes

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille.

I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.