Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonard Cohen

i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former ss monsters However since it is new year's eve and i have lip cancer i will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance

Leonard Cohen

Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit...

Leonard Cohen

In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!

Lembit Opik

I don't want to be awkward, but I've thought about this a lot, and all I want to say is in the statement. Me going out with Gabby from the Cheeky Girls is not a secret.

Leighton Meester

I've never been crazy. I'm a very good girl, to be honest. I don't do anything to hurt anybody.

Leighton Meester

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

Lawrence Taylor

Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.

Layne Staley

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

Laura Ziskin

In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,

Lauren Bacall

The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.

Lauren Bacall

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.

Lauren Bacall

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I wasn't like most girls.

Laurell K. Hamilton

It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.

Laurell K. Hamilton

A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.

Lapo Elkann

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

Langston Hughes

If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.

L. J. Smith

The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

L. J. Smith

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

L. J. Smith

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

Karen Hughes

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

Juliette Gordon Low

HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit. LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her. HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman.

Juliette Gordon Low

Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together.

Juliette Gordon Low

To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

Juliette Gordon Low

A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to be prepared to give service in it.

Juliette Gordon Low

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

Juliette Gordon Low

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

Juliette Lewis

The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.

Juliet Marillier

Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn’t like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.

Juliet Marillier

a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.

Julie Gold

Ilene Weiss and I went to Girls High together.

Julie Kagawa

My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.