Myrna Loy (Myrna Adele Williams) Quotes

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Myrna Loy

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• Carrying
• Breach
• Hygiene

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• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Music
  • Father
  • Day

• I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dress

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian

• MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Alone

• A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Champagne

• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • People

• I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I had CNN on in my hotel room every day while we were filming the pilot for 'The Originals.'

  

  Leah Pipes

• I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• It's not a panacea: there are problems in the world that technology can't fix. You can't fix water shortages. You can't storm a Ministry of the Interior with a cell phone. You can't magically create leaders and institutions overnight. You can't eat it. You can't shield a bullet.

  

  Jared Cohen
  • World
  • Technology
  • Water

• We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.

  

  Christian Dior
  • Women
  • War
  • Period

• I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

  

  John Caudwell
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

  

  Jerry Only

• An honest, bold, loyal, and within its limits extremely highbrow attempt to produce through common ownership a society of the Free and Equal, produced a tyrant and a totalitarian state;…

  

  Max Eastman
  • Society
  • Free
  • Bold

• You don't write 'God Save The Queen' because you hate the English race, you write a song like that because you love them; and you're fed up with them being mistreated.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Up
  • God
  • Song

• I moved all the time as part of a military family, and I just really did not have very many friends. I remember having these feelings of walking into a room and feeling that nobody likes me, or thinking, 'I'm going to have to sit alone at lunch again.'

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Family

• All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.

  

  David John Haskins Bauhaus
  • Thinking
  • Littles
  • Bigs

• States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happens

• I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

  

  Myrna Loy
  • Thinking
  • Common
  • Carrying