There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? ...
GLORIA GRAHAME You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.
GLORIA GRAHAME I married Nicholas Ray, the director. People yawned. Later on I married his son, and from the press'...
GLORIA GRAHAME I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the ima...
GLORIA GRAHAME It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.
GLORIA GRAHAME There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
KENNETH GRAHAME Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me...
KENNETH GRAHAME Believe me my young friend; there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simp...
KENNETH GRAHAME Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here...
KENNETH GRAHAME A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart...
KENNETH GRAHAME The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - s...
KENNETH GRAHAME Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger...
KENNETH GRAHAME After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all t...
KENNETH GRAHAME The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be...
KENNETH GRAHAME Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
KENNETH GRAHAME Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two a...
KENNETH GRAHAME It's not the ideal way you'd like to prepare for a game, but it's that switch -- that competitive ju...
JOHN GRAHAME I didn't know that until just now. I was just focused on whenever I did get a shot, to make the stop...
JOHN GRAHAME It doesn't matter whether you get beat 100-0 or 1-0, it all counts as one game. That's the way we lo...
JOHN GRAHAME It's an honor that I've been waiting for, and that I'm ready for.
JOHN GRAHAME They're a lot better,
JOHN GRAHAME I think everybody came out and did a tremendous job. It's going to be a battle every night and we ha...
JOHN GRAHAME They played us very tough. And Luongo is a good goalie. He gives them a chance every night.
JOHN GRAHAME I don't think it really enters your mind, ... You control what you can control. You go out and play ...
JOHN GRAHAME Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark ...
KENNETH GRAHAME The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, ...
KENNETH GRAHAME I don't know why you ever would. I'm sure there are doubters out there, but all that matters is what...
JOHN GRAHAME Our lives are embellished enough with designers and chrome, death is one thing that doesn't need tin...
GRAHAME HARLOW Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get
away, or whether you do...
KENNETH GRAHAME Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.
KENNETH GRAHAME The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half a...
KENNETH GRAHAME Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
KENNETH GRAHAME There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's ...
KENNETH GRAHAME I don't know if it deflected or what. It was going straight at my blocker; I kind of jumped up to gr...
JOHN GRAHAME Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort o...
KENNETH GRAHAME You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampagin...
KENNETH GRAHAME It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In t...
KENNETH GRAHAME The rapid nightfall of mid-December had quite beset the little village as they approached it on soft...
KENNETH GRAHAME The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - ...
KENNETH GRAHAME The dragon is a more enduring animal than the pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really be...
KENNETH GRAHAME When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into ...
KENNETH GRAHAME Once the puck drops, it's like a switch goes on, you're ready to compete. It's not the ideal way you...
JOHN GRAHAME It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always...
KENNETH GRAHAME Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling a...
KENNETH GRAHAME I question how much upside there is from here. Most of the major stocks now look very expensive in t...
GRAHAME EXTON I'm negative on oil stocks as I can't see much more further upside in the price of crude. I expect t...
GRAHAME EXTON When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on...
KENNETH GRAHAME Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpo...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, ...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH This is one hell of a suicide note.

THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY-
Yes! I've resolved the de...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH 'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our l...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploug...
JAMES GRAHAME (2) Never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be d...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they h...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, face...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on th...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighti...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters ...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH The prophecy is clear, Your Highness. The Messiah shall topple all the kingdoms of the world. Even y...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like r...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in th...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a ...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a ...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH It was this weird confrontation of these two delicious flavors that got me consciously or subconscio...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, ...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH These fools who haven't the slightest idea how to live the morals they espouse. These fools who proc...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH ... Miss Bingley was left to the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain ...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we giv...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH In the real world, babysitting is a groovy way for young people to learn responsibility (and earn a ...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but w...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing.
Briefl...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
GLORIA STEINEM Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for ...
GLORIA STEINEM The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered que...
GLORIA GAITHER My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wo...
GLORIA ESTEFAN A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.
GLORIA REUBEN In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
GLORIA STEINEM Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
GLORIA STEINEM That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage ...
GLORIA GAYNOR What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president?...
GLORIA STEINEM I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining ...
GLORIA STEINEM Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
GLORIA STEINEM Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from ...
GLORIA STEINEM If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ...
GLORIA STEINEM We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
GLORIA STEINEM The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should ...
GLORIA STEINEM Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Po...
GLORIA STEINEM There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
GLORIA STEINEM Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
GLORIA STEINEM God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there'...
GLORIA STEINEM The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hea...
GLORIA STEINEM Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling...
GLORIA STEINEM Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEM Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar...
GLORIA STEINEM The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but to...
GLORIA ESTEFAN Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrumen...
GLORIA ESTEFAN The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity ...
GLORIA SWANSON Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywo...
GLORIA SWANSON What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy ...
GLORIA STEINEM A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
GLORIA STEINEM If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle...
GLORIA STEINEM By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEM When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
GLORIA VANDERBILT Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I ...
GLORIA PITZER America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
GLORIA STEINEM A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
GLORIA STEINEM Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...
GLORIA STEINEM This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible ...
GLORIA STEINEM They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, wh...
GLORIA WHELAN Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEM The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tom...
GLORIA ESTEFAN Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations...
GLORIA STEINEM The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
GLORIA STEINEM However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some g...
GLORIA STEINEM I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
GLORIA SWANSON The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a co...
GLORIA STEINEM The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human ...
GLORIA STEINEM Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be d...
GLORIA STEINEM Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply...
GLORIA STEINEM For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us kn...
GLORIA STEINEM Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step ...
GLORIA STEINEM The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
GLORIA STEINEM When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
GLORIA SWANSON Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered ...
GLORIA STEINEM Toys tossed on the floor
Hand prints on the wall
Slamming of the door
And footsteps down t...
GLORIA BABB I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
GLORIA STEINEM No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his wo...
GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
GLORIA STEINEM . . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the val...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...
GLORIA STEINEM If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
GLORIA STEINEM The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
GLORIA NAYLOR Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
GLORIA STEINEM Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
GLORIA STEINEM We are becoming the men we wanted to marry
GLORIA STEINEM Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about in...
GLORIA STEINEM I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are...
GLORIA STEINEM Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as eit...
GLORIA STEINEM You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporat...
GLORIA STEINEM Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with tha...
GLORIA STEINEM 'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at...
GLORIA STEINEM There's no shortage of great young activists.
GLORIA STEINEM Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by...
GLORIA STEINEM Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.
GLORIA STEINEM Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.
GLORIA ESTEFAN The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
GLORIA ESTEFAN The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and...
GLORIA STEINEM The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
GLORIA STEINEM I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But th...
GLORIA STEINEM Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
GLORIA STEINEM I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m...
GLORIA STEINEM I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, t...
GLORIA ESTEFAN A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
GLORIA STUART Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after ...
GLORIA STEINEM Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
GLORIA ALLRED When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn...
GLORIA STUART A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone c...
GLORIA STEINEM I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
GLORIA SWANSON Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
GLORIA NAYLOR You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of...
GLORIA SWANSON The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in way...
GLORIA REUBEN I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me l...
GLORIA WHELAN I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation ...
GLORIA STEINEM I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
GLORIA SWANSON All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting...
GLORIA STEINEM Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in whic...
GLORIA STEINEM I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support...
GLORIA ALLRED The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were ...
GLORIA STEINEM Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.
GLORIA NAYLOR But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will yo...
GLORIA WHELAN The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
GLORIA STEINEM We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern reall...
GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more...
GLORIA STEINEM I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it in...
GLORIA VANDERBILT All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey He...
GLORIA STEINEM As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this cou...
GLORIA ESTEFAN A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's...
GLORIA STEINEM