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Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.


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JESSICA PARE People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down thi...
DIONNE WARWICK Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich...
RORY MACLEAN Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creat...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for ...
JOHN RUSKIN Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for i...
JOHN STEINBECK Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for i...
JOHN RUSKIN As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Di...
DITA VON TEESE My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myse...
JERRY HALL In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz...
FRANK CAPRA Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful,...
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BARRY HUMPHRIES I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my...
DAKOTA FANNING I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only r...
BLANKA VLASIC Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not simil...
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ZOE KRAVITZ They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made b...
NICOLAS ROEG The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.
MICHAEL DIRDA I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If ...
DOUG JONES Her hair tells us she is Marlene Dietrich meets maverick. She's a woman who carries red hair beautif...
COLLEEN ABRIE The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
H. G. WELLS When a man's suit fits, when the construction is beautiful, when the sewing and fabrics are ther...
JOHN VARVATOS Even the most terrible beginnings can turn into beautiful endings when the direction is changed.
APOORVE DUBEY You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the...
CARINE ROITFELD Now, when I play soul piano, for instance, and I play a rendition of 'Spain,' I do it decons...
CHICK COREA Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-t...
JOHNNY WEIR And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thin...
KEVIN KELLY It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way...
TROY POLAMALU I always knew that, even if I was not the most beautiful girl, I'd be the most energetic and har...
GISELE BUNDCHEN When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I f...
DREW BARRYMORE When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whate...
JUNOT DIAZ You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even be...
TARIQ ANWAR The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother's apple pie.
BENNY CASSETTE Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write ...
YAEL NAIM My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My fav...
LANGSTON HUGHES When it comes to the most beautiful women of all time, head-turning, full-on glamour wins the day.
HELEN JOHNSTON One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even w...
D. L. HUGHLEY The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
SACHA GUITRY Let's see... I have a thing for pretty legs. But most importantly, I like confident women.
THEO JAMES I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone wit...
ROBERT WILSON Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
KAILASH SATYARTHI The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's ...
JEREMY GRANTHAM When I'm on the field, the trick I like to do most are stepovers. For me, it's a simple, bea...
NEYMAR There's no difference if you're a supermodel or if you've lost both your legs. What are ...
NIKKI SIXX Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's cover...
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KEVIN MITNICK Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the ...
SONIA RYKIEL Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditor...
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE I can't do the Garbo or Dietrich thing.
NORMA SHEARER Even when i didn't get credits for my efforts, i still kept my head up and prayed for better days..
OLASOT I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it'...
CAMILA ALVES Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
ALBERT EINSTEIN What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I se...
TERRY TEACHOUT When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' ...
ERIC ROTH The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later an...
SARAH MCLACHLAN Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by price...
JERRY SALTZ In response to a ridiculous statement by Edith: " I've gotta quote for you, Edith. --'A bird that al...
ARCHIE BUNKER Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead.
LAURA MONCUR I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if...
LEE DANIELS What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public....
DAVID R. BROWER The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
ZOE FOSTER BLAKE Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It...
DAVID LYNCH A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the sho...
COCO CHANEL How beautiful is a land covered with trees
SOTONYE ANGA The park is just so beautiful with everything covered with snow. This is really the first time all w...
BECKY GRAFF I was in 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' and I got to do a song for the soundtrack.
CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It s...
ATHOL FUGARD Don’t go for good or better; the best is yours; go for it.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
JENNIFER NIVEN The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the ...
JOSS WHEDON One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There's nothing m...
JOHNNY DEPP I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I ...
RAY BRADBURY Beautiful words were beautiful words, even to the most practical of minds.
RENéE AHDIEH People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the prese...
COLIN QUINN I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite...
KEN FOLLETT Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn o...
SAM CHILDERS To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
DAVID HOCKNEY A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.
MICHAEL LEUNIG When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and ...
JOAN SMALLS We have to finish around the net better. [Dietrich] has played very well against us but we have to b...
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JACK HANDY You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, t...
WARREN CUCCURULLO I keep my face covered during concerts. That's just something that is part of me, an artist, and...
ALAN WALKER Katwe is fifteen minutes from my home. It's entirely about knowing it from the inside. For insta...
MIRA NAIR I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman.
LEIGHTON MEESTER There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than oth...
DAVID WALLIAMS I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if sh...
BRUCE FORSYTH Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
MARLENE DIETRICH You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfe...
CARINE ROITFELD Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's bu...
GREG BEAR Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for t...
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ASAP ROCKY We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hu...
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EDITH WIDDER I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
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EDITH WHARTON The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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EDITH WHARTON Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
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EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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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.
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EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
EDITH WHARTON I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ...
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...
EDITH WHARTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
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