Myrna Loy (Myrna Adele Williams) Quotes

I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those men and the other experts who made us beautiful. The rest of it I didn't give a damn about. I didn't fuss about my clothes, my lighting, or anything else, but, believe me, some of them did.

Myrna Loy

• Beautiful
• Giving
• Trusted
• Glamorous
• Magician
• Lighting
• Marshes

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• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Bad
  • You
  • Count

• There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Describe

• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Think
  • First

• Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Done
  • Think
  • Best

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• Candy apple red is my favorite color. It's a powerful color to wear. It's always been that way - I've always been really attracted to that color.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Powerful
  • Color
  • Red

• And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Think
  • You

• The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Principles

• As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Children

• Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• But if you say: 'How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?' then I say: 'How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?'

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Once you have extrapolated the effects a particular science will have on society - cheap clean energy, rejuvenation - the political impact is quite easy to predict. The two are twinned.

  

  Peter F. Hamilton
  • Society
  • Political
  • Science

• Richard Armitage is very good at the old horse riding because of course he did it in 'Robin Hood,' so he's very good at that.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Hood

• At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • People
  • Women

• Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Die
  • Decision
  • Resources

• I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.

  

  John Grant
  • Beautiful
  • Proud
  • Beginning

• Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Important
  • Story
  • End

• Der Weg zur Hölle ist jedoch mit guten Absichten gepflastert, und er konnte ebensogut der Absicht sein, Geld zu machen, ohne zu produzieren.

  

  Karl Marx

• John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also inspiring on a musical level.

  

  Estelle
  • Guy
  • Inspiring
  • Musical

• I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those men and the other experts who made us beautiful. The rest of it I didn't give a damn about. I didn't fuss about my clothes, my lighting, or anything else, but, believe me, some of them did.

  

  Myrna Loy
  • Beautiful
  • Giving
  • Trusted