Cynthia Payne Quotes

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

Cynthia Payne

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• You cannot do only one thing.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • You
  • Only
  • One Thing

• When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Money
  • Father

• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Money
  • Lose

• I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Doing
  • Shots
  • Visual

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Book
  • Together
  • Simple

• If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Culture

• I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Night
  • Singing
  • Smoking

• I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Writing
  • Research
  • Admit

• Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Good
  • Girl

• Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Self
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Great
  • Copy

• It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Crazy
  • Artist
  • Successful

• When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.

  

  Washed Out
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Feel

• It's all about sound. It's that simple.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • About

• For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Small
  • Need
  • Unknown

• I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Never
  • Model
  • Thing

• The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Different
  • Faith

• I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.

  

  Alexandra Wentworth
  • School
  • Kids
  • Single

• There is a trick with which votaries of Feminism seek to prejudice the public mind against its critics, and that is the “fake” that any man who ventures to criticise the pretensions of Feminism, is actuated by motives of personal rancour against the female sex.

  

  Ernest Belfort Bax
  • Sex
  • Prejudice
  • Feminism

• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
  • May
  • Thought

• The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Secret

• My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

  

  Cynthia Payne
  • Party
  • Sex
  • Tea