Ethel Waters Quotes
I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.Ethel Waters
Quotes to Explore
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When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.
Laura Spencer -
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
Omari Hardwick -
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
Felicity Kendal -
I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
Nadia Comaneci -
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
Gary Larson
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
Natalie Merchant -
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'
B. B. King -
According to the 2000 'Report of the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation,' the long-lasting effects of nuclear testing can be qualified in simple scientific terms: 'Radiation exposure can damage living cells, causing death in some of them and modifying others.'
Valerie Plame -
People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.
Jackie Speier -
In my show I announce, ‘People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.’
Lady Gaga
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The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
You know what I've always wanted to do? I've always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.
Albert Brooks -
It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs.
Poppy Delevingne -
Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.
Charles Horner -
Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
Chris Marker -
A season is very long, and there will be periods where you'll be very good and moments where you won't be as good.
Diego Costa
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It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.
Lita Ford -
One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation - The house of reason is very far away!
Kabir -
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
Davy Crockett -
I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.
Chuck Grassley -
I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten -
I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.
Ethel Waters