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My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie....


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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RACHEL SHELLEY I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to,...
RACHEL SHELLEY I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.
RACHEL SHELLEY Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the...
RACHEL SHELLEY We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
RACHEL SHELLEY I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.
RACHEL SHELLEY I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. I...
RACHEL SHELLEY Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
RACHEL SHELLEY I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I ...
SHELLEY HENNIG I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all th...
SHELLEY WINTERS I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
SHELLEY WINTERS I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza...
SHELLEY HENNIG Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
PERCY SHELLEY It was so cold I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.
SHELLEY BOVEY Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
SHELLEY WINTERS If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
SHELLEY LONG He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh...
GEORGE SHELLEY I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.
SHELLEY HENNIG I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband ...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or y...
SHELLEY DUVALL People ask me, 'How's 'Teen Wolf?' and I tell them it's literally the best job I...
SHELLEY HENNIG We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.
SHELLEY DUVALL I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
SHELLEY FABARES The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to d...
SHELLEY BERMAN And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create ...
SHELLEY DUVALL Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But...
SHELLEY DUVALL Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.
SHELLEY DUVALL While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subvert...
KEVIN SHELLEY Where do you go to get anorexia?
SHELLEY WINTERS Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.
BRUCE SHELLEY a fraternity house. ... He wants you to have a good time whether you're working or not.
BRUCE SHELLEY My boss thinks it's the best entertainment product Microsoft's ever made,
BRUCE SHELLEY They just want to have the action.
BRUCE SHELLEY We do listen to the feedback quite a bit, ... We have at least one or two full-time people who are m...
BRUCE SHELLEY I got into this business to make games that I wanted to play. Turns out that there's millions of peo...
BRUCE SHELLEY We went as high as we could. We were actually putting graphic effects in here you couldn't see on an...
BRUCE SHELLEY The programming team set out to make the best-looking PC game ever.
BRUCE SHELLEY We haven't announced anything and we don't really have anything in development, but we're experiment...
BRUCE SHELLEY We want to do new kinds of games and do new and different things. We've been doing the same game for...
BRUCE SHELLEY I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when w...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
SHELLEY DUVALL