Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.
~By Serena Williams ~
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
~By Vicki Lawrence ~
But love's a malady without a cure.
~By John Dryden ~
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
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 ~
Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
~By Al Capp ~
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 was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.
~By Charles Phillips ~
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.
~By Juliette Lewis ~
I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.
~By Jay London ~
When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.
~By John Lone ~
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 ~
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
I've been with this young lady for about two years now, and my life changed. I don't even think that way no more. I feel good, too, that I'm changed. Now I feel regular. I feel like I'm supposed to.
~By Mike Epps ~
Some things a lady doesn't tell.
~By Kim Hunter ~
I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
~By Nancy Reagan ~
Reba is very, very close to everyone around her. She's a classy lady.
~By Faith Hill ~
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 ~
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 ~
My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.
~By Pauly Shore ~
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
~By Charles Revson ~
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
~By George Dennison Prentice ~
I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.
~By John Wilson ~
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 ~
My best evenings are at home with my lady.
~By Billy Zane ~
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
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 ~
For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.
~By Alexander Dubcek ~
This lady is not for turning.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.
~By Henry Constable ~
My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
~By Chris Brown ~
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 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 ~
My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.
~By Noel Redding ~
I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.
~By Celia Cruz ~
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.
~By Robert Wagner ~
Give the lady what she wants!
~By Marshall Field ~
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 ~
The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.
~By Jane Grey ~
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
~By Mark Twain ~
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'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
~By Amy Sedaris ~
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
~By Tina Fey ~
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
~By Shelley Winters ~
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
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 ~
The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
~By Sydney Biddle Barrows ~
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 ~
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~By Jane Austen ~
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 ~
Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.
~By Kit Williams ~
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
~By Andrew Marvell ~
Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
~By Wayne Rogers ~
Luck, be a lady tonight.
~By Frank Loesser ~
And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
~By Edith Head ~
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
~By Joseph Addison ~
I like to be treated as a lady.
~By Sharon Stone ~
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
~By Jane Austen ~
No lady is ever a gentleman.
~By James Branch Cabell ~
I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.
~By Elizabeth Hurley ~
You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
~By Jennie Churchill ~
Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.
~By Mother Jones ~
I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.
~By Joseph Force Crater ~
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
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 ~
I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
~By Danielle Steel ~
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 ~
I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.
~By Cesar Romero ~
I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
~By Aretha Franklin ~
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 ~
For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
~By Timothy Zahn ~
I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.
~By Mary Teresa Norton ~
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
~By Janis Joplin ~
The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
~By Bobby Orr ~
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'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 ~
I am an optimistic lady.
~By Julie Andrews ~
My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
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 ~
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
~By John Fletcher ~
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.
~By Kit Williams ~
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
~By Jane Austen ~
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 ~
Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
~By Lady Gaga ~
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 ~
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 ~
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
~By Cesar Romero ~
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