Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Frank Baum

He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog," said the girl.

Lilly Pulitzer

The Lilly girl is always full of surprises. She lives everyday like it's a celebration, never has a dull moment, and makes every hour a happy hour.

P. J. O'Rourke

Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.

P. J. O'Rourke

Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.

Paul Stanley

To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.

Patti Hansen

I loved when my boyfriends would call me their Amazon girl.

Patterson Hood

At any given time, there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights there are a lot of girls in the audience, some nights not. It's so unpredictable, but I like that.

Patti LaBelle

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

Patti LaBelle

As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

Patricia Velasquez

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

Oscar Wilde

JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

Oscar Wilde

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

Oscar Wilde

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

Oscar Wilde

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

Oscar Wilde

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

Oscar Wilde

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Oscar Wilde

Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

Oscar Wilde

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

Oscar Wilde

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

Oscar Wilde

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

Gorham made us work hard. We worked hard for the three goals that we got. The girls were persistent and stuck with it.

Gorham made us work hard, ... We worked hard for the three goals that we got. The girls were persistent and stuck with it.

Leisel Jones

Great job, girls! It tops off great preparation we've had all week.

Gotta love it. Gotta love it. I feel like the girls really wanted this one. They're working really hard right now.

For our first meets it was awesome. I'm proud of the girls' performances.

Isaiah Mustafa

When a girl finally texts me back, that ding on the phone is like an angel singing.

Isla Fisher

I tell my girlfriends - 'Imagine if all the time you put into waxing and primping, you took all of that energy and put it into something useful.'

Isak Dinesen

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

Irv Kupcinet

A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.

Imtiaz Ali

Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you dont believe it, ask your mom!

Imelda Marcos

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

Ike Turner

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

Ida B. Wells

The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.