Quotes

- Fun Stuff -

Some of my favorite quotes . . .

On Women:

"Beauty fades . . . dumb is forever." - JUDGE JUDY

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. - KATHERINE HEPBURN

"Well behaved women rarely make history." - LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH

"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." - FAITH WHITTLESEY

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." - ROBERT FROST

"Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer... the great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want?" - SIGMUND FREUD

“I refuse to admit I’m 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.” - LADY NANCY ASTOR

"The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby." - NATALIE WOOD

"Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions". - JULIAN BARNES

On Life, Goals & Motivation:

"If you're going through hell, keep going." - WINSTON CHURCHILL

"If you don't know where you are going, you can never get lost." - HERB COHEN

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk." - J.C. PENNEY

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." - VICTOR HUGO

On Writing:

"The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it." - ELIZABETH DREW

"There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good." - F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." - GLORIA STEINEM

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." - ISAAC ASIMOV

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. - LORD BYRON

"There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." - MARK TWAIN

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - TOM CLANCY

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart..." - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH