Irene Dunne Quotes
Never on any golf course have I been approached by a policeman who said, 'Lady, you can't play with an ordinary golf ball. You're movie star. You'll have to use a coconut for a ball.
Quotes to Explore
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.
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I've never had anyone just stick their hands through my hair. Yet. If they ask, I go, 'OK, you can, if you want to. It's probably just going to feel like most people's.' I take it as a compliment.
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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
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You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.
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Never on any golf course have I been approached by a policeman who said, 'Lady, you can't play with an ordinary golf ball. You're movie star. You'll have to use a coconut for a ball.
