When twilight drops her curtain down
And pins it with a star
Remember that you have a friend LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY For five months I got up at six o'clock and got dressed by the lamplight. The fire would not yet be ...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twi...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY There is a great solitude about such a shore. The woods are never solitary- they are full of whisper...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Here with hosts of friends
I revel who can never change or chill;
Though the fleeting years a...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Again at Park Corner. We came up to Kensington yesterday evening and drove down here. It was a beaut...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY There had been an autumn storm of wind and rain, lasting for three days. Thunderous had been the cra...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red ...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorr...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and the natures whi...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back her...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God s...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY I am well in body although considerable rumpled up inspirit, thank you ma'am.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY That is one good thing about this world. . .there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorr...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there ...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real troubl...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me ...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever G...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be...
MAUD I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom cam...
MAUD WELZEN The English may batter us to pieces, but they will never succeed in breaking our spirit.
MAUD GONNE I like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere.
MAUD WELZEN I was born with a reading list I will never finish.
MAUD CASEY We have quite a good policy for big companies but we have the same rules for small companies. If you...
MAUD OLOFSSON It's slightly less job security during these two years, but it is a way for employers to test whethe...
MAUD OLOFSSON We must have a system in which young people can get a foothold in the job market.
MAUD OLOFSSON He was born before they were testing the blood supply. By the time he recovered from all the things ...
MAUD NAROLL Someone from Iran doesn't need to order the tape with the gays and the topless woman. They'll get an...
MAUD BREDERO This is not meant to make fun of ourselves or the people who want to come here. But people do need t...
MAUD BREDERO This notion that we want to shock Muslims, that is complete nonsense. They don't need to agree in th...
MAUD BREDERO It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hil...
MAUD HART LOVELACE She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed he...
MAUD HART LOVELACE This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having priva...
MAUD HART LOVELACE Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted t...
MAUD HART LOVELACE Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be le...
MAUD HART LOVELACE Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and ...
MAUD HART LOVELACE But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.
MAUD HART LOVELACE When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they li...
MAUD HART LOVELACE The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.
MAUD HART LOVELACE New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change," Betsy decid...
MAUD HART LOVELACE Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
MAUD HART LOVELACE The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in...
MAUD HART LOVELACE When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a ...
LUCY PUNCH Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad ...
LUCY HALE Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as...
LUCY POWELL I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambr...
LUCY GRIFFITHS In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for...
LUCY POWELL I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and t...
LUCY WALKER I always felt like there wasn't a blueprint for father-daughter relationships - for them or for ...
LUCY ALIBAR To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I l...
LUCY LARCOM Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy ...
LUCY BENINGTON Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which wi...
LUCY STONE From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our b...
LUCY LARCOM I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and t...
LUCY STONE Girl-children do not reproduce their own name. They bring forth offspring for strangers. They receiv...
LUCY MICHOT She felt there was no difference between her and the sacrificial hen with a rag tied to its neck.
LUCY MICHOT Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
LUCY ELLMAN I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying...
LUCY LAWLESS I try to believe like i believed when I was five... when your heart tells you everything you need to...
LUCY LIU Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy ...
LUCY BENINGTON Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy b...
LUCY LARCOM "Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?"
LUCY PARSONS The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping; And every happy g...
LUCY LARCOM I remember arriving by train in a small Swiss town. I had walked up a steep, cobblestoned street tha...
LUCY TAYLOR Consumers expect a safe, convenient, and affordable globalised payment platform.
LUCY PENG People ask why I always play crazy people and free spirits. I guess it is because I like to have fun...
LUCY PUNCH There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker...
LUCY ALIBAR You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn aroun...
LUCY LIU I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-p...
LUCY WALKER What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one&...
LUCY LARCOM Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used...
LUCY POWELL In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade e...
LUCY POWELL If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get d...
LUCY STONE A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and mu...
LUCY STONE I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at wha...
LUCY STONE No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the un...
LUCY LARCOM If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
LUCY LARCOM But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and...
LUCY STONE Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those w...
LUCY STONE If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
LUCY LARCOM My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.
LUCY GRIFFITHS I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking...
LUCY HALE Oh, well, I know that Libby." He rolls his eyes. "I've never met anyone more committed to, well, lif...
LUCY HOLLIDAY I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my...
LUCY HAWKING In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the ...
LUCY POWELL I don't really believe in cliques - I think everyone can be friends with everyone.
LUCY HALE Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't ...
LUCY LIU Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and ...
LUCY POWELL Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean th...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - es...
LUCY POWELL Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crash...
LUCY WALKER One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. I...
LUCY LARCOM There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperi...
LUCY POWELL The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable ...
LUCY POWELL The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It w...
LUCY LIU I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has eve...
LUCY PUNCH The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only ...
LUCY POWELL I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our fron...
LUCY HAWKING I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.
LUCY WALKER The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did no...
LUCY LARCOM Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone...
LUCY CARLESS The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the u...
LUCY WALKER With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden a...
LUCY WALKER How long will you keep me?" I asked.
You shrugged. "Forever, of course.
LUCY CHRISTOPHER So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering...
LUCY PARSONS Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin,...
LUCY LARCOM Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through...
LUCY LARCOM For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the...
LUCY POWELL You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and ...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him wh...
LUCY LARCOM Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on prev...
LUCY POWELL I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my ...
LUCY LARCOM Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating sp...
LUCY LARCOM In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doo...
LUCY POWELL It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest...
LUCY LARCOM The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have b...
LUCY POWELL I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. F...
LUCY WALKER I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural suppo...
LUCY POWELL A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed ...
LUCY POWELL The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk about. It...
LUCY HALE June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain w...
LUCY LARCOM That's nice, to be compared to Joanna Lumley. She played my mother once in 'Ella Enchanted.&...
LUCY PUNCH I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mea...
LUCY STONE Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble hi...
LUCY LARCOM But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and wit...
LUCY STONE Someone told me I had funny facial expressions. I don't know whether I take that as a compliment...
LUCY PUNCH I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers.
LUCY PUNCH To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use...
LUCY STONE I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commut...
LUCY POWELL I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Aust...
LUCY FRY Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to...
LUCY POWELL The norm has been that as housing ages, it's occupied by lower-income people. That's not so anymore.
WILLIAM LUCY Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chi...
LUCY LARCOM I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
LUCY HAWKING It would be helpful to have a similar type of mission go to an asteroid and compare the results, ......
LUCY MCFADDEN I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great on...
LUCY HALE Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is...
LUCY LARCOM I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that&...
LUCY HALE The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation an...
LUCY POWELL Steve Carell is the most spectacular ad-lib improviser ever. And just doing a scene with him, it'...
LUCY PUNCH The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to t...
LUCY LARCOM Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give.
LUCY CHRISTOPHER It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to se...
LUCY ALIBAR I'm a really good juggler.
LUCY HALE The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines wit...
LUCY GREALY Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by ...
LUCY GREALY Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a ...
LUCY LIU It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less s...
LUCY POWELL The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
LUCY POWELL I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen...
LUCY WALKER It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: throug...
LUCY POWELL I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now ...
LUCY LAWLESS I know a journalist when I see one.
LUCY DALGLISH There is no question that there are more restrictions coming down. There is rampant secrecy in both ...
LUCY DALGLISH We pleaded that whatever was fit to be done at all might with propriety be done by anybody who did i...
LUCY STONE I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant m...
LUCY GREALY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...
LUCY GREALY I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tear...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience o...
LUCY LIU Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you ...
LUCY POWELL These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and...
LUCY POWELL In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like...
LUCY FOLEY A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon...
LUCY LARCOM You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.
LUCY LIU Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
LUCY STONE I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would li...
LUCY HAWKING She was colorful and wonderful. When you do television, it goes into everyone's living room and they...
LUCY LIU She was colorful and wonderful.
LUCY LIU I love Lisa. We went to school together in Beijing, at the Beijing Normal School.
LUCY LIU It's so much fun playing her [Ling], but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me ...
LUCY LIU I try to believe like I believed when I was five... when your heart tells you everything you need to...
LUCY LIU Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last ...
LUCY GREALY I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand ou...
LUCY HAWKING I was totally appalled that someone in our district would think they could get away with that.
LUCY BERRY Sunday morning we realized that with a category five [hurricane], the walls would be breached, so we...
LUCY LAWLESS Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he h...
LUCY LIU It's really ridiculous. I'm just waiting for the first search of a newsroom to come down and for som...
LUCY DALGLISH Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?
LUCY PARSONS Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel.
LUCY PARSONS He's bigger than average, and I was overwhelmed. But I didn't really like kissing him, because his l...
LUCY CLARKSON Guys are like purses,Cute, full of crap, and totally replaceable.
LUCY MILLER Global Crossing's success in the execution of its strategy demonstrates the importance of a finely t...
LUCY LIU They're passing through, and this is the one place they can learn about the state, about blues, civi...
LUCY ALLEN Some dried off better than others.
LUCY ALLEN We'd like to stay located in that facility until the new museum is built.
LUCY ALLEN We hope the public will offer ideas about how we can best present the local history of each region w...
LUCY ALLEN Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women...
LUCY ELLMAN While we’ve always had a certain number of federal prosecutors going after journalists, we’re se...
LUCY DALGLISH