Memorable Quotes - Page 37

Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to make the clothes come to life.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

In many ways, constancy is an illusion.

Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.

I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.

"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."

I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

No, I'm afraid they might slip and hit a nerve and I'd end up with one side of my face hanging down or something. I'll just stick with this one for a while and take my chances. I'll be brave.

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.