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
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• 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

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • inspirational
  • Start
  • Over

• 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

• Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.

  

  Jamshyd Godrej
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• 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 prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

  

  Gemma Files
  • Poetry
  • Prefer
  • Effective

• I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Interesting

• My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Hope
  • College

• 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