Elaine Stritch Quotes

I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Discrimination

• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Picture
  • Paint

• I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Struggle
  • Tongue
  • Impatient

• Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
  • Party
  • Investment

• I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Women
  • Know
  • Health

• Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Sides

• It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Time
  • Money
  • Better

• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Working

• Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Respect
  • Show

• I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Love

• When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Strong
  • Know
  • Habit

• Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Home
  • Today
  • Technology

• The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • College

• It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

  

  Jeri Ryan
  • Past

• I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Free

• To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Time
  • Military
  • Calm

• I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Time
  • Family