Pearl Bailey Quotes

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

Pearl Bailey

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• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Like
  • Movies
  • Humor

• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Never

• I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Unhappy

• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Days
  • Breaking

• Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Work
  • Great
  • Movie

• I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Television

• It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Taken

• I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • End

• College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

  

  J. Cole
  • School
  • College
  • Experiences

• During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Practice
  • Key
  • Swing

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Clothes
  • Throw

• When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Never

• Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Yourself
  • Advocate

• I am mentally strong.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Strong
  • Mentally

• It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, 'Oh, the last one was the best one.' It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Time
  • Game

• I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Believe
  • Make A Difference

• The biggest thing Frida brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Powerful

• Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva. And there was the slow movement and the lovely last singing movement still to come. I was cured all right.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • World
  • Light
  • Running

• For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Money
  • Home
  • Free

• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

  

  Pearl Bailey