Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If w...
AMY VANDERBILT I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl...
AMY VANDERBILT Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior....
AMY VANDERBILT It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks...
AMY VANDERBILT We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT They just looked up and there she was.
AMY VANDERBILT Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
AMY VANDERBILT Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
AMY VANDERBILT Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
AMY VANDERBILT I think it's safe to say that Logan Pass probably won't be open to through traffic probably for a fe...
AMY VANDERBILT And with fee demonstration funding, Glacier has been able to put a lot of funding into making it mor...
AMY VANDERBILT Glacier has historically been a hiker's park. And providing wheel-chair access is another aspect to ...
AMY VANDERBILT One face to the world, another at home makes for misery
AMY VANDERBILT It's pretty cliffy there. I don't know how steep it was. It may have been a cliff, because it took f...
AMY VANDERBILT We will have personnel working on this all weekend, ... The boulder is going to require blasting to ...
AMY VANDERBILT Our crews have reported that someone did make it up to Logan Pass and they described water running d...
AMY VANDERBILT They're worried about potential under-cutting of the road surface.
AMY VANDERBILT What we know, ... is that two hikers on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, at about 10 a.m., had a close en...
AMY VANDERBILT We received 4.4 inches of rain, compared to a 10-year mean of 2.14 inches.
AMY VANDERBILT Glacier has historically been a hiker's park. And providing wheel-chair access is another aspect to ...
AMY VANDERBILT I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
AMY VANDERBILT You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
GLORIA VANDERBILT If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT When I want to buy up any politician I always find the anti-monopolists the most purchasable -- they...
WILLIAM VANDERBILT The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT . . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the val...
GLORIA VANDERBILT The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT 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 do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetit...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
GLORIA VANDERBILT That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
GLORIA VANDERBILT The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, be...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are a...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presen...
GLORIA VANDERBILT When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
GLORIA VANDERBILT It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power ...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT He had the greatest gift of all, the ability to love without fear.
GLORIA VANDERBILT We would have second thoughts about using her again.
GLORIA VANDERBILT . . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the valu...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.
GLORIA VANDERBILT In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT To be happy--one must find one's bliss
GLORIA VANDERBILT I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
GLORIA VANDERBILT And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
GLORIA VANDERBILT We would have second thoughts about using Kate Moss again. We weren't aware of any issues with Kate ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing &...
JAMES VANDERBILT The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might ...
TOM VANDERBILT A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. Bu...
GLORIA VANDERBILT A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
GLORIA VANDERBILT I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't k...
GLORIA VANDERBILT If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was...
GLORIA VANDERBILT The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly wri...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always rea...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I believe in marriage and fidelity.
GLORIA VANDERBILT I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it alw...
GLORIA VANDERBILT If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going t...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Everything in life is elusive.
GLORIA VANDERBILT Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, fo...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.
GLORIA VANDERBILT I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
GLORIA VANDERBILT I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I th...
GLORIA VANDERBILT The heart of another is a dark forest.
GLORIA VANDERBILT I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The...
AMY GRANT It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old...
AMY GRANT You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea...
AMY GRANT Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we pla...
AMY GRANT The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
AMY GRANT Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd ...
AMY GRANT I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's somethin...
AMY GRANT Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much ...
AMY GRANT I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced...
AMY GRANT There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
AMY GRANT I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just e...
AMY GRANT There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature...
AMY GRANT The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
AMY GRANT But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with comp...
AMY GRANT I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a goo...
AMY GRANT Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the C...
AMY GRANT Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect,...
AMY GRANT Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
AMY GRANT Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends...
AMY GRANT Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's sh...
AMY GRANT I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
AMY PURDY I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine ...
AMY POEHLER Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi...
AMY BLOOM Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conqu...
AMY CHUA Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel...
AMY GRANT My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset...
AMY BLOOM Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
AMY WINEHOUSE These people are the air I breathe and the blood I bleed. They are my courage. I will not let them d...
AMY EWING I think you can do anything you put your mind to
AMY EWING It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It w...
AMY EWING Violet’s eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, “What is wrong with these people?
AMY EWING Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until...
AMY EWING Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...
AMY LOWELL I’ve swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I’m still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited...
AMY LIPTROT I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined ...
AMY CHUA In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares...
AMY POEHLER The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters ...
AMY MCTEAR It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a ...
AMY PURDY After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off...
AMY YASBECK Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll...
AMY HECKERLING Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz ...
AMY WINEHOUSE Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and...
AMY ALCOTT Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
AMY RYAN Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power an...
AMY CUDDY Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put i...
AMY HECKERLING If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
AMY GRANT My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became T...
AMY TAN My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
AMY JACKSON All books are either dreams or swords.
AMY LOWELL Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
AMY LOWELL My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in ...
AMY ADAMS Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I hav...
AMY ADAMS I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I...
AMY WINEHOUSE When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smi...
AMY GRANT In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
AMY LOWELL All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
AMY LOWELL For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
AMY LOWELL There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing O...
AMY LOWELL For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...
AMY LOWELL You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
AMY LOWELL Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind...
AMY LOWELL I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...
AMY LOWELL Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo...
AMY TAN We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change ...
AMY TAN Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or sooth...
AMY GERSTLER Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his ...
AMY SEDARIS Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ...
AMY PLUM God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el...
AMY CARMICHAEL Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were ...
AMY SEDARIS You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
AMY BLOOM However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...
AMY POEHLER I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ...
AMY POEHLER I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving ...
AMY ENGEL Share your voice and your heart. Listen to how it falls in with the cosmic symphony. Let it be imper...
AMY MCTEAR You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
AMY TAN Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
AMY LOWELL If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
AMY TAN In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
AMY TAN Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
AMY TAN Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON