Showing posts with label Katharine Hepburn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katharine Hepburn. Show all posts

Monday, October 17, 2011

Quote (#577)

"Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching."
- Scott Adams

"We do what we must, and
call it by the best names."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who can make you
believe absurdities can
make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire


"Acting is the most minor of gifts and
not a very high-class way to earn a
living. After all, Shirley Temple could
do it at the age of four."
- Katharine Hepburn

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except
there's no music, no choreography, and
the dancers hit each other."
- Jack Handey

"But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all."
- Oscar Wilde

Friday, February 27, 2009

Quotaria

"Thinking is one thing no one
has ever been able to tax."
- Charles Kettering

"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps
himself because he can't help himself."
- Henry Morgan

"You can't help getting older,
but you don't have to get old."
- George Burns

"Death will be a great relief.
No more interviews."
- Katharine Hepburn

"Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
- Lord Tennyson

Friday, September 19, 2008

Quotes

"Don't let it end like this.
Tell them I said something."
- Pancho Villa

"If you obey all the rules
you miss all the fun."
- Katharine Hepburn

You cannot shake hands
with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi

Cyclops: "I believe you people have something that belongs to us?"
Gambit: "Short li'l fella."
Jubilee: "All adamantium and attitude. "He's one of a kind. We'd like him back."
Beast: "And don't forget our resident psionic Japanese-By-Way-of-Britain Ninja
Warrior...You can imagine how hard they are to replace!"
-- X-Men #7

Xavier: "Wolverine, call me 'Professor', 'Professor X', Professor Xavier', or, even if you must, 'Charles' but not 'Charley'. Is that understood?"
Wolverine: "Sure, Chuck."
- Uncanny X-Men #139

"Man is a clever animal who
behaves like an imbecile."
- Albert Schweitzer

Friday, September 12, 2008

Quotes

My grandfather once told me that there were two
kinds of people: those who do the work and those
who take the credit. He told me to try to be in
the first group; there was much less competition.
- Indira Gandhi

A leader must have the courage to
act against an expert's advice.
~ James Callaghan

He's turned his life around. He used
to be depressed and miserable. Now
he's miserable and depressed.
- David Frost

The most wasted of all days
is one without laughter.
- E E Cummings

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
- Katharine Hepburn

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
- Peter De Vries