“I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart” Quote by Steve Martin
“The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.” ThinkingFeelsWould BeGivenAudienceFailingHavensAppreciationPerformersAdulation Author:Michelle Shocked
“They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.” WayFirstsHas BeensMovementMusicianBunch Author:Michelle Shocked
“Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.” ArtPiecesArt IsExcuseCheese Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
“If the owner of a franchise is approached and promised good money for his team to lose an irrelevant game, he tells his players to lose the game and they don't care because they get paid huge amounts anyway.” IfsCareGamesLosesPlayerTeamHugeAmountPaidDon't CareOwnersIrrelevantGood Money Author:Rashid Latif
“Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.” IfsChildrenStatesEyeDifferencesCitiesHalfVirtueConstitutionPopulationEducatedMaking A DifferenceVirtuous Author:Aristotle
“The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.” KnowsMenSoundAcceptingAdviceHe ManSound Advice Author:Hesiod
“Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'” WellsPersonsStoriesTodayStandardsJokesTiredRidiculousNewspapersQuarrelsPrintingGreetings Author:Vivien Leigh