A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
EDITH EVANS I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ...
EDITH EVANS When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
EDITH EVANS When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
DAME EDITH EVANS When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
DAME EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
DAME EDITH EVANS Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
EVANS True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
EDITH WHARTON As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac...
EDITH PIAF What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great...
EDITH HAMILTON There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
EDITH WHARTON I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
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EDITH WIDDER One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably...
EDITH WIDDER We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti...
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EDITH WIDDER In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapago...
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EDITH WIDDER I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organ...
EDITH WIDDER I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre...
EDITH WIDDER The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
EDITH WIDDER If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the anima...
EDITH WIDDER Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sp...
EDITH WIDDER For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bio...
EDITH WIDDER I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&...
EDITH WIDDER It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that...
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EDITH WHARTON He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
EDITH WHARTON The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
EDITH WHARTON In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
EDITH WHARTON To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
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EDITH WHARTON There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise...
EDITH WHARTON Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br...
EDITH WHARTON Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
EDITH WHARTON The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
EDITH WHARTON Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th...
EDITH STEIN All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself...
EDITH STEIN A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un...
EDITH STEIN During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert...
EDITH STEIN The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex...
EDITH STEIN Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot...
EDITH STEIN Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into...
EDITH STEIN As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people...
EDITH STEIN Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s...
EDITH STEIN The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ...
EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
EDITH STEIN Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology...
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EDITH STEIN On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co...
EDITH STEIN Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ...
EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
EDITH STEIN The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli...
EDITH STEIN The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev...
EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
EDITH STEIN My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ...
EDITH STEIN Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever...
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EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
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EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
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EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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EDITH PEARLMAN I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
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EDITH HEAD I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
EDITH HEAD With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star...
EDITH HEAD Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col...
EDITH HEAD Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i...
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EDITH HEAD If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J...
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EDITH HEAD A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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EDITH HEAD There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
EDITH HEAD Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
EDITH HEAD Some people need sequins, others don't.
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EDITH HEAD My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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EDITH HEAD You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
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EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
EDITH CAVELL There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...
EDITH WHARTON Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
EDITH SUMMERSKILL I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame...
EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
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EDITH SITWELL Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho...
EDITH WHARTON Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a...
EDITH SITWELL The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to...
EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
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EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k...
EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle...
EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.
EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove...
EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality.
EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
EDITH SITWELL Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t...
EDITH HEAD Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunate...
EDITH WIDDER Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo...
EDITH STEIN Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
EDITH WIDDER Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's al...
EDITH WIDDER Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a...
EDITH HEAD I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
EDITH WHARTON Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful...
EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolog...
EDITH WIDDER Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
EDITH WHARTON The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ...
EDITH SITWELL In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce...
EDITH WIDDER Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M...
EDITH HEAD I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh...
EDITH WIDDER Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'...
EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey.
EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Las...
EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and
abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG