Lillian Hellman Quotes

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Lillian Hellman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 20, 1905 - June 30, 1984

Topics

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Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters.

John Podhoretz

DogPartyPresidentNeverTopVice

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

Tony Curtis

WorldNavyNeighborhoodWholeBronx

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown

WorkHopeTrustCreativityYouMore

'Game of Thrones' is wonderful. My theory is they employ all these British actors because, one, they are like me and grateful. Two, we turn up, and we know our lines. Three, we don't demand a 60 ft. Winnebago and PA, and four, largely we are very uncomplaining.

Diana Rigg

GratefulMeGameKnowThreeTurn

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

Dick Van Dyke

FatherWeekEdgeAlwaysLivedJust

Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on 'NCIS.' You get home and you're exhausted, but you feel like you've really worked.

Cote de Pablo

LoveHomeFeelYouComingExhausted

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

Ty Segall

MyselfBestMeSongSayWay

As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.

Kenneth Langone

JobConstructionLongIslandBoy

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

Kimberly Elise

SadHappyFreeMadEmotionsGlad

Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.

James Frain

CharacterFunBadKnowSometimes

Ryan is an amazing person. When I was his age, I wasn't thinking about giving someone a kidney. How do you ever repay someone for something like that? You can't. It's not like borrowing $20 from someone and telling them you're going to give it back. It's something that you can never repay someone for.

Grizz Chapman

AgeAmazingThinkingGivingSomeone

I believe in God, in Jesus Christ. I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

Hugo Chavez

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