A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful,...
STACY SCHIFF And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
STACY SCHIFF Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same prob...
STACY SCHIFF We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent ...
STACY SCHIFF From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has ...
STACY SCHIFF We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostl...
STACY SCHIFF Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. An...
STACY SCHIFF In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cle...
STACY SCHIFF I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate out...
STACY SCHIFF Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about h...
STACY SCHIFF What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperf...
STACY SCHIFF I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too co...
STACY SCHIFF No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.
STACY SCHIFF You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse o...
STACY SCHIFF Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concent...
STACY SCHIFF Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-d...
STACY SCHIFF No biographical subject is ever on hold with the orthodontist. If there's a dry spell, it's ...
STACY SCHIFF The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of...
STACY SCHIFF I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me...
STACY SCHIFF Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a larg...
STACY SCHIFF My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very ha...
STACY SCHIFF For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens...
STACY SCHIFF Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submis...
STACY SCHIFF Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's u...
STACY SCHIFF How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without soun...
STACY SCHIFF For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. O...
STACY SCHIFF Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships...
STACY SCHIFF I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at ...
STACY SCHIFF Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculous...
STACY SCHIFF He wrote Véra sheepishly: “Something has happened (only don’t be angry). I can’t remember (fo...
STACY SCHIFF Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can m...
STACY SCHIFF There would be no reward, no settling of accounts, nor - most stunning - a syllable of gratitude for...
STACY SCHIFF No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow...
STACY SCHIFF The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Eliz...
STACY SCHIFF Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was...
STACY SCHIFF One loyal friend,” Euripides reminds us, “is worth ten thousand relatives.
STACY SCHIFF To the punishing study of Egyptian, however, Cleopatra applied herself. She was allegedly the first ...
STACY SCHIFF there were days you felt like waging war, and days when you just needed to go home.
STACY SCHIFF As incandescent as was her personality, Cleopatra was every bit Caesar's equal as a coolheaded, clea...
STACY SCHIFF Her palace shimered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrig...
STACY SCHIFF Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
STACY SCHIFF As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agre...
STACY SCHIFF It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to ...
STACY SCHIFF The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is diffi...
STACY SCHIFF Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clev...
STACY SCHIFF When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.
STACY SCHIFF History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well.
STACY SCHIFF It was in Alexandria that the circumference of the earth was first measured, the sun fixed at the ce...
STACY SCHIFF A commanding woman versed in politics, diplomacy, and governance; fluent in nine languages; silver-t...
STACY SCHIFF Romans marveled that in Egypt female children were not left to die; a Roman was obligated to raise o...
STACY SCHIFF I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about lon...
RICHARD SCHIFF We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.
ADAM SCHIFF We believe that America's military strength is superior in every respect and we are committed to mak...
ADAM SCHIFF Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will...
ADAM SCHIFF Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr....
ADAM SCHIFF Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is ...
ADAM SCHIFF And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other...
ADAM SCHIFF Everyone recognizes the goal of equal opportunity in all of our institutions. And race-neutral polic...
ADAM SCHIFF But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in...
ADAM SCHIFF Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
JACQUELINE SCHIFF So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. ...
ADAM SCHIFF While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equa...
ADAM SCHIFF I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell ...
RICHARD SCHIFF The market needs to set prices, including interest rates and allocate resources. If it were up to me...
PETER SCHIFF We had a very upwardly mobile economy, and that peaked around the 1950s when the typical middle-clas...
PETER SCHIFF I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe...
RICHARD SCHIFF America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
ADAM SCHIFF Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to r...
ADAM SCHIFF We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermi...
ADAM SCHIFF Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to ...
ADAM SCHIFF The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September ...
ADAM SCHIFF An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its stre...
ADAM SCHIFF If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the...
ADAM SCHIFF The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.
ADAM SCHIFF My mother always taught me that two wrongs don't make a right. We shouldn't bail out Wall St...
PETER SCHIFF At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the tr...
ADAM SCHIFF Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our...
ADAM SCHIFF I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but witho...
RICHARD SCHIFF The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn...
PETER SCHIFF Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr....
ADAM SCHIFF I cannot keep his memorabilia in. If I get anything that's signed, that is obviously authentic, that...
AL SCHIFF He's a big part of my business.
AL SCHIFF But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, w...
ADAM SCHIFF We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification come...
RICHARD SCHIFF Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.
ADAM SCHIFF the Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its...
PETER SCHIFF What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the...
PETER SCHIFF Wall Street is in trouble because Main Street is broke.
PETER SCHIFF But the men and women of our armed forces are deserving of our unqualified support.
ADAM SCHIFF Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision fo...
ADAM SCHIFF Remember 'The Brady Bunch' TV show? That 1970s family had a full-time live-in housekeeper ca...
PETER SCHIFF I would say to people of a libertarian conservative position on an issue, do not do a taped intervie...
PETER SCHIFF I'm not accusing Warner Bros. of suppressing Toby in any way, shape, or form, ... It's not some suit...
RICHARD SCHIFF Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our ...
ADAM SCHIFF We believe there's every capability of dealing with this problem in China if the resources are devot...
ADAM SCHIFF Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Feder...
PETER SCHIFF I had an image that everyone (at Oracle) had been growing horns. But John expressed the importance o...
JOHN SCHIFF Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will...
ADAM SCHIFF People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial ...
PETER SCHIFF When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's do...
PETER SCHIFF Development in Ventura, San Fernando and San Gabriel continues at a remarkable pace, and our region ...
ADAM SCHIFF It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. T...
RICHARD SCHIFF Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.
ADAM SCHIFF One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how...
PETER SCHIFF The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
ADAM SCHIFF Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.
ADAM SCHIFF It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enou...
ADAM SCHIFF In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of mo...
ADAM SCHIFF The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic...
ADAM SCHIFF I'm not a flight risk. I would much rather use the time to prepare an appeal,
IRWIN SCHIFF There's no reason to put me in jail.
IRWIN SCHIFF The Federal Mafia: How the Government Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes.
IRWIN SCHIFF I had nothing to do with this.
IRWIN SCHIFF It's a bad idea. These medications come from all over the world. They come without FDA [federal Food...
HOWARD SCHIFF The United States has the world's gold standard when it comes to the safety and efficacy of its drug...
HOWARD SCHIFF It's a big issue. Counterfeiting techniques are becoming more refined. It is very difficult to tell ...
HOWARD SCHIFF Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a poun...
STACY KEIBLER When I'm home, I like a cozy, comfortable, calming space.
STACY KEIBLER Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'...
STACY KEACH Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in...
STACY LONDON Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.
STACY LONDON I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem...
HOLLIS STACY There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's...
STACY KEACH Never let a trend get in the way of creating a great outfit for yourself.
STACY LONDON You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you...
STACY LONDON Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to ...
STACY LONDON Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you l...
STACY LONDON I think that the way to have style is to accept where your body is right now, heavier or skinnier, w...
STACY LONDON All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to loo...
STACY LONDON A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get peo...
STACY LONDON Don't get hung up on the size. If you feel bad about yourself because a 12 is what fits, take a ...
STACY LONDON Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to fe...
STACY LONDON Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you'...
STACY LONDON Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.
STACY LONDON We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we...
STACY LONDON Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.
STACY LONDON Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.
STACY LONDON The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will wo...
STACY LONDON Texture is something we forget - it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic ou...
STACY LONDON Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. ...
STACY LONDON Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.
STACY LONDON I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and gi...
STACY LONDON Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outsid...
STACY LONDON Nothing's too girly and nothing's too masculine. But I do love color, and maybe that's a...
STACY LONDON I was really pleased with how we played. It was the best we played all year, unfortunately, it just ...
ANDREW STACY We played really well. As a team it was probably our best finish we've had in the Batavia Invitation...
ANDREW STACY We have to play well. Batavia is very good. They are loaded year in and year out.
ANDREW STACY Our scores improved from a couple weeks ago when we played at Rochelle. It's nice to see the guys co...
ANDREW STACY [Eating disorders] are a wonderful tool for helping you reject others before they can reject you. Ex...
STACY PERSHALL It's just fun just being a girl.
STACY KEIBLER I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have ...
STACY LONDON Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to loo...
STACY LONDON Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with...
HOLLIS STACY I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping...
HOLLIS STACY Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' ar...
STACY LONDON As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about le...
STACY KEACH Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of...
HOLLIS STACY It's always going to be a game. You have to credit Norwood, they came out and they were hitting thei...
STACY BILODEAU My daughter, if she chooses to have a home birth or a midwife at her birth I want that to be an opti...
STACY DAVIS He confessed to inflicting bodily harm to the infant.
STACY FLORES I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal...
STACY KEACH She (Craig) just got a hold of it and hit it well. Kate throws so hard, so when somebody really conn...
STACY BAKER I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost int...
HOLLIS STACY The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have s...
HOLLIS STACY On this track, Maria should remain well to the east of Bermuda and only pose a threat to shipping in...
STACY STEWART I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do mo...
STACY KEACH I really like visiting military bases.
STACY KEIBLER Being healthy and living a healthy lifestyle have always been very important to me.
STACY KEIBLER The suspect was still here on scene and was stalking the victim until the officer had left. After th...
STACY FLORES ‎You never realize how lonely you really were, until that moment you knew it was true love. When t...
STACY MADDOX As I sat out on my deck this morning, watching the sunrise, I was reminded of how great God's love i...
STACY MADDOX You know you love someone when you want to share in their joys and sorrows; when their dreams and fa...
STACY MADDOX Music is not heard with the ears, but rather felt by the soul.
STACY MADDOX Nudity is a lot of fun, but the hunt itself is just as much fun. I think the combination is a win-wi...
STACY KING People seem to love nudity, and I'm sure there's a lot of nudity to choose from in [the] museum.
STACY KING Take the time to look inside someone and you will find much more than what lies on the surface. Ther...
STACY MADDOX Even though my heart has been shattered a million times, there is a still a tiny part of me that bel...
STACY MADDOX My silence does not mean that I don't care or I have nothing to say. It quietly whispers that one da...
STACY MADDOX Love is getting into a warm bed because someone turned the heating pad on for you.
STACY MADDOX I cry not because it's over, but because I'm sad it had to end.
STACY MADDOX Perhaps by the end of the workweek it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the U.S..
STACY STEWART There comes a moment, not measured with time, when you know that the past no longer holds regrets. S...
STACY MADDOX That they were very substantive, very graphic, very detailed. If she is making it up, not only is it...
STACY PHILLIPS Have a blast while you last
HOLLIS STACY It's a very rare tropical cyclone making landfall in the Iberian Peninsula,
STACY STEWART It's a very rare tropical cyclone making landfall in the Iberian Peninsula.
STACY STEWART The main thing is to go into the New Year with the right outlook and view it as a lifestyle change, ...
STACY NICOLAS Don't take that last run if you're feeling worn out. Leave it at that. A lot of injuries happen beca...
STACY GARDNER The biggest thing I'm going to remember is walking out on the floor in this final game and looking u...
CHAUNCEY STACY Our classes are small and there is a lot of individual treatment and instruction. We are like a fami...
STACY NICOLAS Cat is definitely a great pitcher. I think in the Big 12 there's a lot of great teams. (Texas) is no...
STACY GEMEINHARDT To err is human; to make the same mistakes again and again is a fool's tragedy.
STACY MADDOX Today I learned a very valuable lesson: Children are much more aware of what is going on in their he...
STACY MADDOX True, deep, satisfying love is created through the passing of time and existence. It is a completion...
STACY MADDOX Who would I like to kiss? Probably Madonna because I'm jealous Christina and Britney already got the...
STACY FERGUSON Ryan's always graded out very well. He's a person with great balance, and he has great lower body st...
STACY ADAMS We needed to put some more drives together, but we weren't able to do that after the first one.
STACY ADAMS When I was manning these gates with the military, we had between 20 to 25 officers. But the normal o...
STACY ADAMS He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.
STACY ADAMS We have to keep plugging away. We're playing a lot of young guys, and they'll be pretty good down th...
STACY ADAMS