Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building: It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

Sarah Bernhardt

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
  • First
  • Champion

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Done
  • Situation
  • Random

• I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • American
  • Think
  • Myself

• My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Father
  • Day
  • Moment

• I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Fun
  • Left
  • Field

• There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Eating
  • Eat
  • Cow

• You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • People
  • World
  • Politics

• I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Love
  • Everyone
  • To Love

• Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Game
  • Games

• That’s because you can’t hold something in your mind but a little while, said Jem. It’s different with grown folks, we-

  

  Harper Lee
  • Different
  • Mind

• I have not been without battle. Bitter affliction was frequent Between me and my cousins. Frequent trials fell Between me and my fellow-countrymen. There was frequent contention Between me and the wretched.

  

  Taliesin
  • Bitter

• With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...

  

  Anna Sui
  • Important
  • Fashion

• I tell myself that anyone who says he has finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. Finished means complete, perfect, and I toil away without making any progress, searching, fumbling around, without achieving anything much.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Perfect
  • Progress
  • Canvas

• Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna goWhen the whole thing's done.But no one knows for certainAnd so it's all the same to me.I think I'll just let the mystery be.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Done

• Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. - Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • School
  • Earth

• My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Facts
  • Riches

• It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Men
  • Children
  • Pain

• Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Tears

• When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building: It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Heart
  • Building
  • Flight