Phyllis Diller Quotes

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller

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• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Flower
  • Smiles

• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Children
  • Husband

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • You
  • Years
  • Yesterday

• From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Smile

• I really liked Kishore Kumar. He had a virile man's voice, and he was truly versatile.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Man
  • Voice
  • Really

• Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Me
  • Feel
  • See

• I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Smile
  • Smugness
  • Lopsided Mouth

• I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Fame
  • Maintain
  • Public Eye

• Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

  

  Earl Long
  • Smile
  • Talk
  • Phone

• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich

• Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Children
  • Baby
  • Smile

• I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.

  

  Mamie Eisenhower
  • Country
  • Turn
  • Pork

• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Mother

• There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and Ive always looked at life that way; Ive always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that Ive gone through.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • World
  • Kids

• People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Smile

• I always say, 'Do you have a body? Then you're swimsuit ready.' That's all you need to worry about.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Worry

• A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • Smile