Imelda May Quotes
I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
Quotes to Explore
-
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
-
The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
-
You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
-
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
-
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
-
Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
-
As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
-
If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
-
What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
-
The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
-
I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
-
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
-
Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
-
You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
-
Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
-
I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
-
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
-
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
-
I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
-
I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
-
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
-
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
-
I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.
-
I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
