FastSaying

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.


Shirley Eaton

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don...
KABIR BEDI I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.
KEELEY HAWES I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any othe...
DOUGLAS WOOD Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.
MAURICE CHEVALIER I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enth...
JACK LOWDEN I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple ...
MARA WILSON Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'B...
DAWN FRENCH Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH I loved Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and Reese Witherspoon in 'Election....
PHOEBE TONKIN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,...
JOSHUA ROMAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Mur...
RICHARD ROEPER I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
ADAM CAROLLA Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music...
ROBIN GIBB You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I'v...
ALEXANDRA ROACH We believe Eaton Vance has a well-defined niche and reputation for tax-efficient investing, combined...
ALEXANDER JR We believe Eaton Vance has a well-defined niche and reputation for tax-efficient investing, combined...
ALEXANDER PARIS JR I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Br...
TONY RANDALL 'The Office' is clearly the funniest show on TV. But I can't live without watching '...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best p...
JASON ALEXANDER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare ...
MARK WILLIAMS I loved the movie 'Heathers' and the TV show 'Twin Peaks.'
SARA SHEPARD I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. B...
KENNY WORMALD Shirley Temple doesn't hurt Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple helps Shirley Temple Black. She...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
GARRET DILLAHUNT On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the wri...
TRACY MORGAN I saw an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 'Fanny and Alexander' at the Royal Theatre in Co...
SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN Now I'm on television, I'm far more conscious of my skin than I used to be - I would often l...
DARCEY BUSSELL The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from 'Little Britian,' Matt Lucas and David ...
EDGAR WRIGHT I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.
DOLLY PARTON I went from such a testosterone-driven show to the exact opposite, because 'Friends With Better ...
KEVIN CONNOLLY I remember seeing 'Hairspray' when I was 15, and it is such a luxury to be able to see a Bro...
NIKKI BLONSKY I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I...
ASHLEY JENSEN I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a fin...
JACKSON POLLOCK I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Co...
CHERIE LUNGHI Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to d...
DON RICKLES I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
SALLY KELLERMAN I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, an...
BRUCE MCCULLOCH I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.
LEIGHTON MEESTER The one worry that I always have with TV is that it's such a long commitment. You sign on to be ...
EVAN ROSS If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that ha...
CASEY WILSON I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most a...
FRANCESCA ANNIS My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother S...
SHAWN AMOS I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up...
TOM RILEY I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance.
MELANIE RAWN I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was ...
BECCA TOBIN I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'La...
KAZUO ISHIGURO 'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they ...
CARY FUKUNAGA Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff ...
TRISH STRATUS I did a live late-night talk show called 'Creation Nation' with friends of mine. I had a sid...
BILLY EICHNER It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everyt...
HATTIE MORAHAN About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN I got the call to play Tony Manero in 'Saturday Night Fever' in Madrid, a role I'd alway...
JUAN PABLO DI PACE All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Braz...
KURT BRAUNOHLER I love good TV shows, but it's not what I do. I kind of sculpt my films as I go along. And TV is...
PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, ther...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out ag...
CAROL BURNETT I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.
CHRISTOPHER PARKER I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm h...
DARREN ARONOFSKY I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw...
KARA DIOGUARDI Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the sh...
SIMON BAKER I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theatre, and the fact that I'...
ERIC STOLTZ I grew up performing in theatre.
VALORIE CURRY The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political actio...
CARNE ROSS Toronto has such a nice balance as far as the films they show there,
CAMERON DIAZ I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I d...
BILL LAWRENCE I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of...
RICHARD ROEPER Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish art...
THEODORE BIKEL I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I...
DAN STEVENS The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute f...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's ...
NATASHA CALIS Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movie...
JIMMY SMITS I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd sen...
ZOSIA MAMET I believe there is lot of untapped potential in the television market. With shows such as 'Bigg ...
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA As in all TV shows, and especially a show called 'Mistresses,' all is not going to be as it ...
RICKY WHITTLE My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called...
EDWARD ZWICK I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a lon...
BRUCE BERESFORD there is nothing like a live audience--the combined feeling of elation and being physically spent--t...
ALAN CAMPBELL 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's ju...
RANDALL PARK My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the ster...
HENRY LOUIS GATES I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun'...
CASEY NICHOLAW The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in clo...
DEBORAH COX Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!
LESLIE NIELSEN If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Dem...
T'KEYAH CRYSTAL KEYMAH When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. I...
RICHARD MADDEN I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and s...
DAVID WALLIAMS Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian...
BRYAN BROWN Performing on stage is such a buzz. I've done stupid things such as jump off a building, but I&#...
TOM HOLLAND There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watch...
TED SARANDOS I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I reali...
DARBY STANCHFIELD Hannibal Burress is my polar opposite in energy. I can be crazy, and he grounds the 'Eric Andre ...
ERIC ANDRE I've gotten to wear such beautiful clothes and had such a variety and it's just been so nice...
LEIGHTON MEESTER Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
PARKER POSEY

More Shirley Eaton

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the ...
SHIRLEY EATON I am a great believer in naps, whatever age you are.
SHIRLEY EATON Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that...
SHIRLEY EATON I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school ...
SHIRLEY EATON Paul Haggis, who's now a big movie guy, cast me as a lawyer in 'Family Law.' When that s...
MEREDITH EATON It's a challenge I'm willing to take on fully. If I can catch Jake in wins, obviously that would be ...
ADAM EATON I don't know how many months or days it's been. It's nice to get back on the horse.
ADAM EATON This was 10 times better than my last start. My location on my fastball was much, much better.
ADAM EATON It feels like nothing's happened.
ADAM EATON I'm healthy as can be. The finger is a non-issue. With the way the season started and the way I was ...
ADAM EATON I'm healthy as can be. The finger is a non-issue.
ADAM EATON We want to beat the Dodgers. That's our main rival.
ADAM EATON He's tried and true. To have to do it for so many years and have the expectations of so many fans an...
ADAM EATON It's definitely been a roller coaster. I got pulled to the top of that first hill and it was a great...
ADAM EATON Just one statement would be: missed opportunities. We didn't get that one big hit, that stolen base ...
ADAM EATON I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual eleme...
JOHN EATON Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.
ASHTON EATON I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in...
ASHTON EATON That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It...
ASHTON EATON The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and t...
ASHTON EATON Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to ha...
ASHTON EATON I'm just happy to be part of the family, the decathlon family.
ASHTON EATON Every day, we as athletes face several challenges during the training process, and it is imperative ...
ASHTON EATON You see somebody on a football field make a great, athletic 70-yard run, but the athleticism is imme...
ASHTON EATON After asking questions about current recovery techniques, the conversation prompted me to ask myself...
ASHTON EATON My biggest competitor? Myself, mentally.
ASHTON EATON I compete against myself in competitions anyway, so I train against myself in practice.
ASHTON EATON When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seeme...
ASHTON EATON As athletes, we love to say, 'Just one more; I'm going to figure it out on this next one....
ASHTON EATON There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfie...
ASHTON EATON From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, st...
ASHTON EATON Now that I'm older, I see the benefits of having free time to release energy.
ASHTON EATON Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end it will all be worth the h...
ASHTON EATON The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but al...
ASHTON EATON I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
ASHTON EATON That's what has always been good about track. The goal is very clearly defined: Try to win. Get ...
ASHTON EATON The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized y...
ASHTON EATON I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.
ASHTON EATON I remember growing up, having sports to go to, having recess, those were the things I looked forward...
ASHTON EATON My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.
ASHTON EATON Rather than realizing immediate physiological gain, the challenge is more about reducing the mental ...
ASHTON EATON The more you do, the more attrition you experience.
ASHTON EATON Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challeng...
ASHTON EATON When I'm later in the competition, I get antsy. I'm seeing everybody else go and achieve thi...
ASHTON EATON The questions to ask are, why was the decathlon so popular before, and what happened to make it fade...
ASHTON EATON The decathlon is exclusive company.
ASHTON EATON Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we ...
ASHTON EATON We are growing significantly faster than the industry as a whole.
BOB EATON I don't think we need another law on the books to cover that subject.
BOB EATON We think it's a terrific opportunity to take our West Coast production and put it into a single faci...
BOB EATON I think the primary value of this legislation is that it demonstrates Maryland's commitment to conti...
BOB EATON Novel technologies for delivering ... vaccines can certainly find a market if they are more effectiv...
BOB EATON The problem that you have is that there's a whole lot of housekeeping -- and one major poison pill i...
WILLIAM EATON He's obviously coming off an injury that's prevented him from doing anything in a live game. He migh...
ADAM EATON There is no word to describe it. It was amazing.
JOSH EATON I actually like indoor track and field more than outdoor.
ASHTON EATON Initially, I was surprised for one, and I didn't know if I wanted to pitch there. With the acquisiti...
ADAM EATON We've worked on that a few times. I heard a whistle from their dugout, and decided to step off and d...
ADAM EATON I did a little bit of acting - some guest spots here and there. I got a job working as a therapist d...
MEREDITH EATON In high school, I had a gold 1992 Ford Explorer. It was a gift. I used to have a terrible habit of l...
ASHTON EATON I want to be Brave, and Selfless,
and smart, and Kind, and honest.
TOBIAS EATON This is something the attorneys are going to be dealing with.
BETSY EATON Right now we are dealing with a lot of conflicting statements and conflicting evidence.
BETSY EATON Exxon is very definitely apologizing to this community for what happened and we're doing everything ...
BETSY EATON With a film like this that's starting with what would traditionally be the last outlet - a televisio...
ANDREW EATON We've had examples of this, in our town and in other towns. We started discussing what to do about i...
BETSY EATON Can't never did anything but fail.
MR. EATON I was looking forward to finally putting this last stretch out of its misery and put the illness beh...
ADAM EATON I'd been waiting a few years to get to that point, put a bunch of hard work in. Seeing the fruits of...
ADAM EATON This is a good 1-2-3 and I think the team is really good on paper. It's going to be nice to have thi...
ADAM EATON Your mind is the trigger, words are the bullets & ears are the target. so think before your words co...
EMILY EATON Anytime you can go 9-1 in 13 starts, it's definitely a dream. I don't think I've ever had this kind ...
ADAM EATON The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. Bu...
ASHTON EATON Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.
JOHN EATON However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become mo...
JOHN EATON My grandmother, Nina Eaton, founded United Cerebral Palsy. At the time that my father was born with ...
MEREDITH EATON I feel good about it. The clubhouse, all the guys have made themselves available. There is not a lot...
ADAM EATON I think watching multi-events is much worse than competing. Especially when you have vested interest...
ASHTON EATON They played really well as a team. They did good. They shared the ball well.
DEBBIE EATON About twenty-minutes before the tornado got here, we got down in our basement.
DEBBIE EATON All three of them are very solid defenders and lead by example.
DEBBIE EATON Mary scored some goals for us last year and we'll need her to do the same this year.
DEBBIE EATON Lauren knows how to score and Liz is very fast and is going to cause trouble for other teams. Chloe ...
DEBBIE EATON That's a huge piece of our offense and two of our top defenders to not have on the team. We've got t...
DEBBIE EATON Both Jenn and Nicole have injuries and I'll be very surprised if they play. It's a tough situation b...
DEBBIE EATON Having a lot of veteran players will be a big help to us. We get a quick look at Section 2 teams wit...
DEBBIE EATON It's a nice service for our customers. We'll run things back and forth so a customer doesn't leave e...
DENNIS EATON I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.
JOHN EATON Day-to-day, I don't wear make-up, my hair's not done, and I'm in ripped jeans and a Bond...
COURTNEY EATON It's hard for me to speak of my own development. I'm the one behind the steering wheel, and ...
ASHTON EATON My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record.
ASHTON EATON Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theori...
JOHN EATON I would say 90 percent of the stuff we do is technical anyway. If you look at a two-hour training da...
ASHTON EATON The strong ones are the ones who realize that having a bad training day, those types of days are nec...
ASHTON EATON None of us knew what to expect but there was absolutely no pressure. It was incredibly fun and easy ...
GERALD EATON The timing was really good. We all have tons of songs but we wanted to begin from scratch so we got ...
GERALD EATON I think the break was more about each of us having a chance to explore some other stuff we wanted to...
GERALD EATON It is not a decision that I wanted to take at this stage of the competition but there are a lot of t...
EATON BRUCE We have been working on few things and with the inclusion of a few national players we decided that ...
EATON BRUCE We saw a unique opportunity to get involved because this is what the Army does -- we help strengthen...
LOUISE EATON I was like, 'Why are we teamed up with Lincoln? That doesn't make any sense?' But that first day of ...
JOSH EATON I try to swim my own race for the most part. I try to stick with them for the first 75 (yards), then...
JOSH EATON We've learned where people came from, how they got water. We learned that without the range improvem...
MARIETTA EATON Many people describe it as harsh. It is isolated. Water is not common. It's a place where the sheer ...
MARIETTA EATON I was really excited and surprised to see the amount of votes we did receive, ... I'm looking forwar...
ROBERT EATON Every single scrap of information we get is important to us. ... Something's out there that we still...
RICHARD EATON My fastball command was pretty poor, but the cutter was pretty good. The first inning had good point...
ADAM EATON The arm strength and stamina's there. I felt good in the sixth inning, made some good pitches and go...
ADAM EATON I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father of...
SHIRLEY MANSON I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps...
SHIRLEY MANSON I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
SHIRLEY MANSON And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches an...
SHIRLEY MANSON People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that'...
SHIRLEY MANSON I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that...
SHIRLEY MANSON I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.
SHIRLEY MANSON I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
SHIRLEY MANSON Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
SHIRLEY MANSON It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you...
SHIRLEY MANSON Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed ...
SHIRLEY MANSON I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a f...
SHIRLEY MANSON I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible g...
SHIRLEY MANSON In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it'...
SHIRLEY MANSON I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter...
SHIRLEY MANSON I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can...
SHIRLEY MANSON I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet so...
SHIRLEY MANSON The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constan...
SHIRLEY MANSON I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be in...
SHIRLEY MANSON Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
SHIRLEY MANSON I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
SHIRLEY MANSON People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.
SHIRLEY MANSON I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.
SHIRLEY MANSON I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with peopl...
SHIRLEY MANSON I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they d...
SHIRLEY MANSON What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.
SHIRLEY MANSON It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows...
SHIRLEY JONES It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for ...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of th...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM All are equal
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And...
JAMES SHIRLEY After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at sch...
SHIRLEY JONES The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE I've always been bossy.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wi...
SHIRLEY HAZZARD Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
JAMES SHIRLEY What really matters is what you do with what you have.
SHIRLEY LORD The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated eit...
SHIRLEY WILLIAMS Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE The twins were loitering over their cereal, and Mrs. Walpole, with one eye on the clock and the othe...
SHIRLEY JACKSON No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy c...
SHIRLEY WILLIAMS There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, fo...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor,...
SHIRLEY LORD Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true ho...
SHIRLEY HAZZARD Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes,...
SHIRLEY JACKSON The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour aga...
JAMES SHIRLEY Cease, warring thoughts, and let his brain
No more discord entertain
But be smooth and calm a...
JAMES SHIRLEY It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality....
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer ...
SHIRLEY JACKSON We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have t...
SHIRLEY CONRAN If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back ...
SHIRLEY JACKSON Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that ...
SHIRLEY BASSEY I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and int...
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin vene...
SHIRLEY JACKSON The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrus...
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing -...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he a...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.
WILLIAM SHIRLEY Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE Crystals amplify the consciousness.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penaltie...
WILLIAM SHIRLEY I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and hav...
SHIRLEY MANSON If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of so...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its con...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories,...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.
SHIRLEY BASSEY You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.
SHIRLEY BASSEY When you live in a safe place like Monte Carlo, you can walk home at any time of the night and you d...
SHIRLEY BASSEY I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.
SHIRLEY BASSEY I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.
SHIRLEY BASSEY I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
SHIRLEY BASSEY I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it ...
SHIRLEY BASSEY It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few ...
SHIRLEY BASSEY I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what w...
SHIRLEY BASSEY I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.
SHIRLEY BASSEY When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.
SHIRLEY BASSEY I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the ha...
SHIRLEY BASSEY Diamonds never leave you... men do!
SHIRLEY BASSEY I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, s...
SHIRLEY BASSEY You don't get older, you get better.
SHIRLEY BASSEY