To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
~By Albert Camus ~
One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.
~By George Eads ~
I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.
~By Anna Kournikova ~
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
~By Mae West ~
It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.
~By John Michael Hayes ~
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
~By Mark Twain ~
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
~By Berke Breathed ~
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.
~By Gloria Gaynor ~
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?
~By Etta James ~
I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
~By Gene Simmons ~
I don't want to die an old lady.
~By Edith Piaf ~
For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.
~By Alexander Dubcek ~
If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?
~By Matt Drudge ~
An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.
~By Lady Bird Johnson ~
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
~By Louis Nizer ~
I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
~By Upton Sinclair ~
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
~By Amy Sedaris ~
My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.
~By Charlize Theron ~
I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.
~By Gina Gershon ~
The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
~By Sydney Biddle Barrows ~
There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
~By Matt Drudge ~
Some things a lady doesn't tell.
~By Kim Hunter ~
I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.
~By Mary Teresa Norton ~
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
~By George Dennison Prentice ~
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
~By Andy Warhol ~
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
~By William Manchester ~
They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
~By Owen Hart ~
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
~By Bram Stoker ~
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it because I'm a lady.
~By Ruth Warrick ~
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'
~By Kristin Davis ~
I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.
~By Robert Wagner ~
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.
~By John Wilson ~
My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.
~By Noel Redding ~
Well, I've known Elizabeth almost all of her life and almost all of my life. And I love her with all of my heart and she's always been there for me. She's a wonderful, wonderful dame. She's a great lady.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
My best evenings are at home with my lady.
~By Billy Zane ~
Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
~By Pat Nixon ~
I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
~By Adolph Green ~
A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
~By Russell Lynes ~
There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.
~By George Stephanopoulos ~
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
~By Edward F. Halifax ~
Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.
~By Laura Bush ~
I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
~By Clare Short ~
I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'
~By Marie Osmond ~
You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.
~By Joan Van Ark ~
This lady is not for turning.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.
~By Kit Williams ~
More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.
~By Amy Sedaris ~
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
~By Haley Barbour ~
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
~By Maude Adams ~
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.
~By Julie Andrews ~
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
~By Brenda Holloway ~
I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
~By Julie Andrews ~
I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
~By Aretha Franklin ~
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
~By Vicki Lawrence ~
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
~By Sam Houston ~
Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
~By Wayne Rogers ~
I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
~By Dana Carvey ~
I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.
~By Jesse Helms ~
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
~By Claudia Johnson ~
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
~By Cat Stevens ~
I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
~By Arthur Godfrey ~
She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
~By Earl Scruggs ~
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
~By Cesar Romero ~
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
~By Frank Muir ~
The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
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