Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clark Gable

I am intrigued by glamorous women A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.

Elizabeth Scott

I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to.

Elizabeth Taylor

Marriage is a great institution.

Elizabeth Taylor

No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living.

Elizabeth Taylor

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Elizabeth Taylor

Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

Elizabeth Hardwick

[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.

Elizabeth Hardwick

In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

Elizabeth Janeway

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

Elizabeth I

Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

Elizabeth I

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

Elizabeth I

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Eli Wallach

What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?

Eli Wallach

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it

Eli Manning

Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.

Eli Broad

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

Elias Canetti

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Elias Canetti

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

Elias Canetti

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

Edward Witten

M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste

Asghar Farhadi

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

Asghar Farhadi

I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If I do enough different things in enough different ways, I may, eventually, do something right.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Hold on to me: Someday I may be quite valuable.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Nothing really matters except a few things that really don't matter very much.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent

Arthur Honegger

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

Arthur Guiterman

For the young Gaels of Ireland Are the lads that drive me mad, For half their words need footnotes And half their rhymes are bad.

Arthur Helps

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

Armistead Maupin

My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.