You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be...
BESS TRUMAN You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be you...
BESS TRUMAN Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of ...
BESS TRUMAN It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
BESS TRUMAN I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
BESS TRUMAN I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
BESS TRUMAN I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall wan...
BESS TRUMAN I have a strong tennis arm.
BESS TRUMAN I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejud...
BESS TRUMAN A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straigh...
BESS TRUMAN Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up ...
BESS TRUMAN It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
BESS TRUMAN I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall...
BESS TRUMAN It's nice to win.
BESS TRUMAN I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these book...
BESS TRUMAN A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on str...
BESS TRUMAN I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
BESS TRUMAN The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
BESS MYERSON The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference
BESS MYERSON Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredib...
BESS MYERSON I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
BESS MYERSON India would be a new experience. I kind of caught the traveling bug, and they have a lot of need the...
BESS BROOKS The girls from Tanzania were all between 17 and 25, they had little or no education. At the orphanag...
BESS BROOKS To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful
BESS MYERSON They have no diapers, and they all have diarrhea and they pee all over the place. I'd get pee and di...
BESS BROOKS David has had a full life. He has touched so many lives.
JANIE BESS It was a mess. There was water everywhere. But he was so happy. It took him all day to wash three pl...
JANIE BESS I knew we had prayed for a wife, but this was a little too fast.
JANIE BESS David loves everybody. He doesn't hear the mean things people say. He doesn't see the mean things pe...
JANIE BESS No one told him he had limitations. We just told him he was deaf and blind.
JANIE BESS Lots of places built new stadiums because their old stadiums are economically obsolete. It's certain...
PHILIP BESS I'm just the figurehead for thousands of people that have contributed.
GENE BESS It's so much bigger than me. I'm the figurehead for thousands of people that have contributed. As mu...
GENE BESS They loved each other enough that they wanted the other one to play as well as they could, then they...
GENE BESS We had pretty much all the ingredients you need. We had a really good point guard, an inside game th...
GENE BESS The great teams are teams that buy in, work hard, are in great condition and just won't give in. The...
GENE BESS This is a tough decision for you. It was a tough decision for me.
GARY BESS We plan on using a portion of those proceeds, $1.6 million, to replace current city funding of the p...
GARY BESS The job of the Forest Park Advisory Board is to review the proposal and to determine if it is compli...
GARY BESS People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.
BESS MYERSON Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
BESS MYERSON Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.
BESS MYERSON All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother...
BESS MYERSON On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'
BESS MYERSON I really don't like talking about diets.
BESS MYERSON I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made tha...
BESS MYERSON I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.
BESS MYERSON I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deal...
BESS MYERSON Men go after me, and I choose among them.
BESS MYERSON Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.
BESS MYERSON I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
BESS MYERSON To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
BESS MYERSON The consumer has to make a decision: Do I trust Microsoft, when they've been having challenges in pr...
LANE BESS What used to take up to five days to detect now usually takes less than an hour.
LANE BESS We'll take a call to help you.
LANE BESS It was the first Tuesday in August. The Nebraska heat rolled in upon one like the engulfing waves ...
BESS STREETER ALDRICH In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more tha...
BESS STREETER ALDRICH Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your hear...
BESS STREETER ALDRICH You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.
HARRY TRUMAN No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the m...
TRUMAN CAPOTE [The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can...
HARRY TRUMAN Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town.
TRUMAN CAPOTE It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY TRUMAN The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.
TRUMAN DOCTRINE Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
HARRY TRUMAN Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
TRUMAN CAPOTE That, Verena managed after some suspenseful seconds, is, she said, regarding her gloved hands, rema...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have...
TRUMAN CAPOTE I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTE To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are bor...
TRUMAN CAPOTE A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due t...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
TRUMAN CAPOTE It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easter...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in t...
TRUMAN CAPOTE And nice to have seen you, Sue. Good luck, he called after her as she disappeared down the path, a p...
TRUMAN CAPOTE People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only on...
HARRY TRUMAN Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
TRUMAN CAPOTE The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a...
TRUMAN CAPOTE You know the days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blu...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
TRUMAN CAPOTE She was still hugging the cat. "Poor slob," she said, tickling his head, "poor slob without a name. ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY TRUMAN All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing an...
HARRY TRUMAN How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?.
HARRY TRUMAN There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with h...
HARRY TRUMAN A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: d...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Activities like that are really good for the city and the activist community.
CARL TRUMAN There's probably ideology connected to each group that would conflict.
CARL TRUMAN No one really works together and I don't think that people mean to be that way, they just don't real...
CARL TRUMAN It's just the city, kind of, honestly, college students are pretty apathetic.
CARL TRUMAN It seemed like he was getting a lot of [expletive] for that, just being out there. It didn't seem li...
CARL TRUMAN It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
HARRY TRUMAN Son, I'd say you were going at it the wrong end first, said the Judge, turning up his coat-collar. H...
TRUMAN CAPOTE The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells,...
TRUMAN CAPOTE In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTE It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
HARRY TRUMAN ...he called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...
TRUMAN CAPOTE To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTE We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in...
HARRY TRUMAN Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our b...
TRUMAN CAPOTE There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizz...
TRUMAN CAPOTE You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!
HARRY TRUMAN To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words m...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.
MARGARET TRUMAN He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of...
MARGARET TRUMAN He [Mick Jagger] moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.
TRUMAN CAPOTE He loved politicians - even Republicans.
MARGARET TRUMAN Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I can see every monster as they come in.
TRUMAN CAPOTE When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year
TRUMAN CAPOTE it's a well-known photograph. This was 1984, just three months before he died.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
TRUMAN CAPOTE No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of...
TRUMAN CAPOTE I never cared for his writings one whit. Boring ... boring.
TRUMAN CAPOTE We're doing John first, and then bringing out Lee.
TRUMAN CAPOTE This is the book I was always meant to write,
TRUMAN CAPOTE The better the actor the more stupid he is
TRUMAN CAPOTE When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas. , "Answered Prayers" (Unspoiled Monsters).
TRUMAN CAPOTE Other voices, other rooms
TRUMAN CAPOTE When I think of how good my book can be, it scares me.
TRUMAN CAPOTE The reason we made it a masked dance was simply because, well, it's a completely free thing, and by ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE It isn't writing at all - it's typing
TRUMAN CAPOTE Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even mo...
TRUMAN CAPOTE My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it
TRUMAN CAPOTE To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "...
TRUMAN CAPOTE He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
MARGARET TRUMAN All literature is gossip.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not ...
HARRY TRUMAN I only object when any one particular group...gets a stranglehold on American criticism and squeezes...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
TRUMAN CAPOTE But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Too Brief a Treat
TRUMAN CAPOTE The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a...
HARRY TRUMAN Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
TRUMAN CAPOTE It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in so...
TRUMAN CAPOTE And turning in space, her hair swung like a victory. They danced until all at once and as one the mu...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empt...
TRUMAN CAPOTE The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
HARRY TRUMAN I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may c...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof...
TRUMAN CAPOTE there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
TRUMAN CAPOTE would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing wit...
TRUMAN CAPOTE There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
TRUMAN CAPOTE That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citize...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
HARRY TRUMAN I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another leve...
TRUMAN CAPOTE I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You rem...
HARRY TRUMAN The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
HARRY TRUMAN Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.
HARRY TRUMAN Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand fo...
HARRY TRUMAN But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I beca...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Never love a wild thing... you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always luggin...
TRUMAN CAPOTE You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frus...
TRUMAN CAPOTE You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quiet sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frus...
TRUMAN CAPOTE More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a hou...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
HARRY TRUMAN Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streakin...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Kay yawned and rested her forehead against the windowpane, her fingers idly strumming the guitar: th...
TRUMAN CAPOTE It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own ho...
MARGARET TRUMAN It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.
HARRY TRUMAN You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It...
TRUMAN CAPOTE All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.
TRUMAN CAPOTE They caught us easing up. We got careless just long enough for them to take advantage within the 18-...
JENNIFER TRUMAN Ariel took a lot of shots from all over the field. She was bound to find an opening for the goal.
JENNIFER TRUMAN All three girls play hard. The three of them are playing in such a great rhythm, not just between ea...
JENNIFER TRUMAN