My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.


Edith Head

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Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Dedication is the preparation to success!
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That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.
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Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
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The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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My motto - sans limites.
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.
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She would search for him.
In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
But...
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Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
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It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
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And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
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Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.
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I'm the most boring person to talk to.
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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
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He who promises runs in debt.
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For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
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Who is wise? One who learns from all.
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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
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Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
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If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
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When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
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This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
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The sun will set without thy assistance.
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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
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Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
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Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
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Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
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The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
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To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
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Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
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Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
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Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
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A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE
Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE
Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
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And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
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Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
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A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
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Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of...
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When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their...
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Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
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He who works his land will have abundant food.
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God helps those who persevere.
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Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ...
EDITH EVANS
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
EDITH CAVELL
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...
EDITH WHARTON
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
EDITH SUMMERSKILL
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame...
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