Lynn Fontanne Quotes

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

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• That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Service
  • Own
  • Which

• Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Law
  • Community
  • Policy

• I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Love
  • Nice
  • Obsessed

• It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Good
  • Home
  • Help

• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Small
  • Space

• The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Want
  • You
  • Thought

• I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Way
  • Fashion
  • Wear

• I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Different
  • Me
  • Try

• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Me
  • Fool
  • Shame

• I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fashion

• I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Work
  • Right
  • Wanted

• I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Rain
  • Confession

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • College
  • Couple
  • Effort

• Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Women
  • Goal

• The one thing I've learned exploring the deep is that you just can't even begin to imagine some of the bizarre creatures that are down there.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Down
  • Exploring

• Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.

  

  Martin Rees
  • May

• A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

  

  Scott Spencer
  • Smoke
  • Novelist
  • Underwear

• In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Eyes

• How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Property
  • Time Is
  • Broad

• Here’s the papal proclamation of 1455 that empowered the Christian kings of Europe to enslave, plunder, and slaughter in the name of discovery: invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, principalities, dominions, possessions, and goods, and to convert them to his and their use and profit.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Europe
  • Pagans
  • Saracens

• I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

  

  Lynn Fontanne