Quotes by American Authors - Page 86

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?
Jamie Lee Curtis
When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.
Laura Baugh
I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me but they don't.
LaToya Jackson
People see you as an object not as a person and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing but actually it sets you apart.
Candice Bergen
I intimidate men.... People look a lot but there's no line outside my door.
Joan Severance
Just because you're beautiful they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.
Carol Alt
If you're considered a beauty it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.
Cybil Shepherd
Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you so can the things it brought.
Paulina Porizkova
The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that the rest really comes from it.
Diana Vreeland
When you've got the personality you don't need the nudity.
Mae West
I look forward to being older when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.
Susan Sarandon
Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies.
Cynthia Ozick
I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.
Faye Dunaway
When you're fifty you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Joyce Carol Oates
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas-that's what my grandma taught me.
Elizabeth Heller
How long can you be cute?
Goldie Hawn
A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite lose her waistline her bust-line her ability to bear a child even her sense of humor but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality her femininity.
Barbara Gordon
We all lose our looks eventually better develop your character and interest in life.
Jacqueline Bisset
Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
Cindy Crawford
Time-our youth-it never really goes does it? It is all held in our minds.
Helen Hoover Santmyer
I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction-I've worked hard for them!
Maggie Kuhn
It is so comical to hear oneself called old even at ninety I suppose!
Alice James
This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Dorothy Fuldheim
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
Phyllis Diller
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Lydia M. Child
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.
Lillian Carter
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
Rachel Carson
When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.
Shirley Temple Black
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.
Priscilla Presley
Not all speed is movement.
Toni Cade
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
John Oliver Hobbes
I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.
Jacqueline Briskin
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily Dickinson
Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.
Barbra Streisand
If I had my life to live over I wish I could be a great pianist or something.
Woody Allen
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline in some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.
Bonnie Blair
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.
Ogden Nash
Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it then you worry where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
Dustin Hoffman
If I were given a change of life I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.
Wilt Chamberlain
I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.
Sylvester Stallone
Nobody's problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them.
Dr. Frank Crane
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
Foe Ancis
Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
John Cage
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
Charlton Ogburn
I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.
Kurt Vonnegut
Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
When you don't have any money the problem is food. When you have money it's sex. When you have both it's health. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
J.P. Donleavy
There is less in this than meets the eye.
Tallulah Bankhead
We love in others what we lack ourselves and would be everything but what we are.
R. H. Stoddard
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
Margaret Mitchell
The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.
Toni Cade Bambara
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln