Irene Dunne Quotes
When I found myself riding in a lift with the great showman, I was too much too frightened even to look at him, much less get off at the same floor.
Quotes to Explore
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Imagination rules the world.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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The female body is a beautiful thing, and it should be embraced and celebrated.
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The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
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Growing up, I heard a lot about strength. My dad - a Holocaust survivor - embodied it, though he would never say that about himself. Not only did he survive one of the most horrific events in history, but he never lost hope along the way, crediting acts of kindness with keeping him alive.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.
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When I found myself riding in a lift with the great showman, I was too much too frightened even to look at him, much less get off at the same floor.
