Beatrice Lillie Quotes

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

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• Freedom and idiots make a volatile mix. And the sad truth is that the idiocy quotient in the general population is alarmingly high.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Truth
  • High
  • Freedom

• I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Shoes

• I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

  

  Sebastian Horsley
  • People
  • Attention
  • Greatness

• I do really well when a challenge is put in front of me. I don't just wake up and write. I like being forced to make decisions on the spot. I think that's why I've done so many things as a freelancer.

  

  Njena Surae Jarvis
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Decision

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Together
  • Single

• I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.

  Gail Devers
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Medication

• An unjust peace is better than a just war.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • War
  • Peace

• These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

  

  Douglas Sirk
  • World
  • Happy
  • Promise

• There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Passion
  • Beauty
  • Anger

• Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Ability

• It was the consideration of the multitude of souls which fall into the depths of Hell, because it is of faith that all those who die in mortal sin are condemned forever and ever. According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned, for, as their lives have been, so also will their end be.

  

  Anthony Mary Claret
  • Soul
  • Fall
  • Sin

• Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Technology
  • Film
  • Balance

• I'd like to think I'm ambitious, and I like proving people wrong and surprising people.

  

  Bayley
  • Ambitious
  • Surprising
  • Proving

• I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French, surprised everybody. It was a Chinese restaurant. I said to this Chinese waiter, 'Look, this chicken I got here is cold.' He said, 'It should be, it's been dead two weeks.'

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Night
  • Cold
  • Chinese

• There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Honesty

• Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Forget

• We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Stupid
  • Knows
  • Silly

• I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.

  

  Ricky Schroder
  • People
  • Creative
  • Helped

• [To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

  

  Beatrice Lillie
  • Waiter
  • Dior
  • Darken