Elaine Stritch quote: "[The show] is a study in stardom. Here is a performer who knows who she is, understands her gifts, and maximizes every moment on stage to give the audience the very best of her talent."

I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.
ELAINE STRITCH

When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd...
ELAINE STRITCH

I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about....
ELAINE STRITCH

Betty White is probably a very nice woman.
ELAINE STRITCH

As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
ELAINE STRITCH

My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.
ELAINE STRITCH

You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.
ELAINE STRITCH

I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!
ELAINE STRITCH

I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
ELAINE STRITCH

There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's m...
ELAINE STRITCH

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.
ELAINE STRITCH

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.
ELAINE STRITCH

If I see someone saying the rosary in the wings, I know they've got talent.
ELAINE STRITCH

I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.
ELAINE STRITCH

The Ladies Who Lunch.
ELAINE STRITCH

This is for people who have dough. It's expensive. That's the way it is.
ELAINE STRITCH

I've come to the point in my life where less is more. The minute the last hammer fell on the last na...
ELAINE STRITCH

Marlon's going to school to learn the Method was like sending a tiger to jungle school.
ELAINE STRITCH

Look at the company I'm in here. And I'm so glad none of them won.
ELAINE STRITCH

At Home at the Carlyle
ELAINE STRITCH

At Home at the Carlyle.
ELAINE STRITCH

Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping ...
ELAINE STRITCH

I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. Y...
ELAINE STRITCH

I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every...
ELAINE STRITCH

I mention I'm going home, and I'm a star immediately! This used to happen with my boyfriends...
ELAINE STRITCH

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.
ELAINE STRITCH

I like glasses so I can go out without my makeup. Just grab your coat and get your hat and go.
ELAINE STRITCH

All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the...
ELAINE STRITCH

When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.
ELAINE STRITCH

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending ...
ELAINE STRITCH

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.
ELAINE STRITCH

I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.
ELAINE STRITCH

I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
ELAINE STRITCH

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once sai...
ELAINE STRITCH

I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.
ELAINE STRITCH

I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have.
ELAINE STRITCH

SciFi: When there's a serious problem and everyone decides to solve it sensibly.
ELAINE GREYWALKER

In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful jo...
ELAINE SCIOLINO

While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentime...
ELAINE CHAO

Owen nodded. “Then let’s gear up and get out there.” And, please God, let them all come home s...
ELAINE LEVINE

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
ELAINE MORGAN

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over an...
ELAINE DUNDY

Make a memory with your children,
Spend some time to show you care;
Toys and trinkets can't ...
ELAINE HARDT

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can
ELAINE MAY

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbo...
ELAINE AGATHER

Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior...
ELAINE SHERMAN

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of co...
ELAINE GILL

401k savings accounts have become so important in the landscape of retirement planning that their se...
ELAINE CHAO

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness...
ELAINE MACDONALD

People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and yo...
ELAINE PAGELS

Deep in the heart of Kentucky's rugged Eastern Mountain region, there lives a woman who has fasc...
ELAINE CHAO

The key to understanding the answer to any questions about guidance is having a clear grasp of what ...
ELAINE SEILER

It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enroll...
ELAINE CHAO

Taxpayers should demand that their states honestly assess public pension plans, accurately measure t...
ELAINE CHAO

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compare...
ELAINE MACDONALD

The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of st...
ELAINE PAGELS

Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading...
ELAINE PAGELS

The Antichrist is often identified with the second beast in the Book of Revelation that arises from ...
ELAINE PAGELS

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you i...
ELAINE MACDONALD

The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death,...
ELAINE PAGELS

It's important for us to have a major presence and visibility in downtown Dallas. By consolidating o...
ELAINE AGATHER

We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire.
ELAINE AGATHER

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishb...
ELAINE AGATHER

We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council.
ELAINE ADAMS

This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further.
ELAINE ADAMS

I've been frustrated as a council member in the past, whenever we get donated open space it's never ...
ELAINE ADAMS

The state puts a lot of mandates on the town, not just for education, ... Our infrastructure is dete...
ELAINE ADAMS

The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect tho...
ELAINE ADAMS

It's just devastating to hear,
ELAINE ADAMS

We're known for helping out other people in need. The kids have been great.
ELAINE ADAMS

Some people are scared of technology ... And children to learn in various ways, and for some childre...
ELAINE ADAMS

The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there's no other tex...
ELAINE PAGELS

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
ELAINE LINER

I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an America...
ELAINE SCIOLINO

We need long-term tax reform that promotes private sector job creation. And legislated mandates that...
ELAINE CHAO

She loved good preaching. She loved good political talk. So she is smiling.
ELAINE STEELE

Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest.
ELAINE CHAO

We have a lot of employers who are looking for skilled workers and not being able to find them. And ...
ELAINE CHAO

For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his d...
ELAINE PAGELS

As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be wors...
ELAINE CHAO

Outside of Washington, D.C., most Americans aren't concerned with doing things 'big.' Th...
ELAINE CHAO

The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in Ame...
ELAINE CHAO

I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a f...
ELAINE PAGELS

To some Elvis fans, Graceland is the Mecca of pop-culture kitsch, but to many of the 2,500 tourists ...
ELAINE ROBBINS

This team's been really resilient. They've never panicked. It's really as simple as that.
ELAINE ELLIOTT

The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the ma...
ELAINE PAGELS

Jenna is a superb athlete. She has a great vertical leap and has a nice shot to go along with it.
ELAINE EDDY

There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.
ELAINE CHAO

Never far from my thoughts are memories of being a little girl in Queens, N.Y., our family of five c...
ELAINE CHAO

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.
ELAINE PAGELS

Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to...
ELAINE PAGELS

Perhaps the original layaway angel knew from experience, or simply deduced, that people resorting to...
ELAINE CHAO

We have very few options, and the clock is ticking. It's getting very late in the game.
ELAINE GINNOLD

At first I didn't know what to expect, because Rachel has never won domestically. I believe regardle...
ELAINE YOUNGS

We're not known to overlook anyone. We're not a typical five-seed that comes from a big league and f...
ELAINE ELLIOTT

They didn't fold when it wasn't easy. When they got close, we didn't give up.
ELAINE ELLIOTT

I didn't see much spontaneity. The kids will call out in class or react in a vocal way, but that was...
ELAINE TARR

All seven log trucks had some type of defect and four of them were bad enough to be out of service.
ELAINE FISCHER

Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the ...
ELAINE CHAO

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.
ELAINE PAGELS

I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American wo...
ELAINE CHAO

They led us to victory. Everybody else gave great support, did their jobs. Fatigue wasn't a factor a...
ELAINE ELLIOTT

Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Moham...
ELAINE SCIOLINO

Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, st...
ELAINE CHAO

Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when he...
ELAINE CHAO

Smoot and Hawley ginned up The Tariff Act of 1930 to get America back to work after the Stock Market...
ELAINE CHAO

The frustration level is very, very high.
ELAINE GINNOLD

We're trapped in this twilight zone.
ELAINE GINNOLD

It's true that employers who fail to post the required posters may be fined, but at the state level ...
ELAINE FISCHER

Today, men and women in uniform ... work so hard on our behalf to protect our freedom (and) our libe...
ELAINE CHAO

That takes a lot of the pressure off. Michelle played extremely well tonight.
ELAINE PAGLIARULO

We often forget that Iran has a long tradition and history with the United States. Iranians have bee...
ELAINE SCIOLINO

Arizona State is going to be willing to go to the rim and be aggressive. We have to be aggressive as...
ELAINE ELLIOTT

'Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical ...
ELAINE PAIGE

Clearly, this is very embarrassing, and very serious. The system is only as strong as its weakest li...
ELAINE SHANNON

Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark...
ELAINE PAGELS

Even a healthy economy and labor market would have struggled under the additional expenses enacted a...
ELAINE CHAO

News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 me...
ELAINE CHAO

When the Smoot-Hawley bill landed on President Herbert Hoover's desk, more than 1,000 economists...
ELAINE CHAO

Because of the long working hours, because of lack of transportation, because of scarcity of classes...
ELAINE LACEY

The 20-foot ceilings in the front are now 12 and we have new tables and chairs. It's got a whole new...
ELAINE BECKHAM

Everyone tells me that I shouldn't have retired. I guess in a way I haven't I enjoy taking classe...
ELAINE HANRATTY

Progress is being made, but a lot of women are realizing it is not what they envisioned.
ELAINE CHAO

There's nothing ambiguous about the findings.
ELAINE OSTRANDER

But it's not. I think it looks like a Tudor cottage, at least from the outside.
ELAINE BROWN

We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participa...
ELAINE CUMMING

We have to be our own pioneers. We don't have somebody out there that is willing to be our savior or...
ELAINE BARKDULL

Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population grow...
ELAINE CHAO

America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to bei...
ELAINE CHAO

There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnos...
ELAINE PAGELS

Employers should overcome a myopic quarterly earnings posture and focus on long-term strategies for ...
ELAINE CHAO

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a mu...
ELAINE PAIGE

I'm in touch with my grandma, she's in Indiana, my uncle, he went back to New Orleans and I got a co...
ELAINE NUNN

Happiness is when you get to sleep in on a rainy day.
ELAINE LEE

Many paintings start as sketches done on the spot, a mountain top or a window looking out. I then ad...
ELAINE KUNTZ

I felt we should have been able to win the game. I was disappointed that we lost. That's one I thoug...
ELAINE JONES

St. Mary's College will be a very competitive match-up for us. They are a very aggressive team and t...
ELAINE JONES

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.
I am the force.
ELAINE MAXWELL

The base of this freedom is respect for human rights. And these nine channels are against humanity.
ELAINE XIE

We won the election. I think that for the most part this might be considered sour grapes.
ELAINE TAYLOR

?No problem' ? it replaced his first name. He was absolutely the personification of what we're taugh...
ELAINE HERALD

My dear, you can't even see over the net. Best think of something else.
ELAINE PAIGE

He has been less process oriented and less programmed than I've ever seen him. He has a much more ea...
ELAINE KAMARCK

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.
ELAINE DUNDY

At first I wasn't going to reopen, but I couldn't walk away from it.
ELAINE BECKHAM

It wasn't like Misty played horrible. But Rachel was just laying out to make some of those digs.
ELAINE YOUNGS

She's learned to listen more and improve different aspects of her game. I'm most proud that she's im...
ELAINE JONES

I think we can still be that antique mecca, and I think we can also capture the flavor of what we we...
ELAINE DAVIS

Everyone deserves a second chance,
ELAINE CHAO

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.
ELAINE CHAO

[Katrina will have a] tremendous ... It definitely will be devastating.
ELAINE CHAO

These are strong numbers, but they are not conclusive numbers,
ELAINE CHAO

Repetitive-stress injuries in the workplace are an important problem. I recognize this critical chal...
ELAINE CHAO

Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indi...
ELAINE CHAO

Rosemary, his sister, was very similar to Sam. Introverted and quiet.
ELAINE TARR

If you have any doubt that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of con...
ELAINE GILL

I know I’m a long way from being untwisted.” Val drew her close and kissed her forehead. “I ki...
ELAINE LEVINE

She looked up at Val. “God, can you imagine if I could get my hair to change color on its own?” ...
ELAINE LEVINE

I want a do-over.” “I can’t set the clock back,” he whispered, touching his forehead to hers...
ELAINE LEVINE

Shhh,” Addy said. “Honey, we’ll talk in the morning.” “It can’t wait.” “Then what is...
ELAINE LEVINE

Barry, you’re a one and only, forever kind of guy. I think I’ll keep you.
ELAINE LEVINE

Her stories were going to randomly come out. He had to be man enough to listen to them. It was part ...
ELAINE LEVINE

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.
ELAINE PAGELS

In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan Internat...
ELAINE SCIOLINO

To maintain their own competitiveness, workers need to attain and stay current on the qualifications...
ELAINE CHAO

I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex a...
ELAINE PAGELS

Capital available for individuals to start and expand businesses would increase with regulatory and ...
ELAINE CHAO

Now we are free to come and go as we please, not in sorrow but in laughter.
ELAINE SHOWALTER

It does not look like Virginia Beach is outside the norm by any means. They are caught in a bind.
ELAINE DECK

The work of these women doesn't end when they return home from overseas, as one goal of the Peac...
ELAINE CHAO

Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors ...
ELAINE CHAO

Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.
ELAINE CHAO

For significant job creation to occur, prospective entrepreneurs and current business owners must no...
ELAINE CHAO

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremen...
ELAINE PAIGE

Our county is so big that we don't think that it would hurt us too much.
ELAINE BARKDULL

If we went in and pre-planned an industrial park where we put things that maybe a business wouldn't ...
ELAINE BARKDULL

The more one looks at the rebuild or tunnel option, the more very significant adverse impacts they f...
ELAINE SPENCER

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do s...
ELAINE PAGELS

I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work....
ELAINE PAIGE

When John accuses "evildoers" of leading gullible people into sin, what troubles him is what trouble...
ELAINE PAGELS

When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.
ELAINE CHAO

Those memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound un...
ELAINE CHAO

If I know about drug dealing in the ghetto, the police have to know. One has to wonder why very litt...
ELAINE BROWN

We have to acknowledge that there are massive problems if we want to facilitate change. There has be...
ELAINE BROWN

You cannot look at the success of black people by seeing who is on the front of Ebony magazine or by...
ELAINE BROWN

I think now that both parties are going to be talking, we can get an extension for the people who ar...
ELAINE BROWN

I get really sad when I talk about the house. It has more history than any place I've ever lived —...
ELAINE BROWN

If a kid is being bullied, that's all they think about and cannot concentrate on their academic stud...
ELAINE WILLIAMS

European-style interventions to which the Obama administration is inclined will not make America mor...
ELAINE CHAO

We will push them to come back.
ELAINE YOUNGS

We were aggressive, whether it was jump-serving, hitting on two, or playing free. We were such a gre...
ELAINE YOUNGS

We could have very easily lost in two, but I thought we battled and we had a lot of fun. We laughed ...
ELAINE YOUNGS

I kicked myself about that afterward. I just eased up and didn't go for it like I usually do.
ELAINE YOUNGS

We won't be the favorites because Kerry and Misty are still the No. 1 team. But I hope we're some of...
ELAINE YOUNGS

[The 6-foot-3 Walsh] is so giant, you've got to have perfect timing. And, to be honest, I thought I ...
ELAINE YOUNGS

Rachel was first on my list. I'm so happy it's happened this way. I'm having so much fun and I'm pro...
ELAINE YOUNGS

I think you put the pressure on them and they're mortal. I think we're a smart team. You have plenty...
ELAINE YOUNGS

They [Rogers] said it is about the benefit of the Chinese community.
ELAINE XIE

They propagate Chinese communist ideology and incite hatred.
ELAINE XIE

We feel this issue must be reviewed with ultimate seriousness to protect the safety and sovereignty ...
ELAINE XIE

[The show] is a study in stardom. Here is a performer who knows who she is, understands her gifts, and maximizes every moment on stage to give the audience the very best of her talent.

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