Edith Evans Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
-
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-
Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'
-
A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
-
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
-
I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
-
When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
-
We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
-
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
-
In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
-
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
-
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
-
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
-
In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.
-
I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
-
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
-
For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.
-
A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
-
Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.
-
We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.
-
Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.
-
I think that if you're lucky enough to work with a stylist who pulls a rack from the beginning that you love everything on it, that's a blessing.
-
In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.
-
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
