Wallis Simpson Quotes

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Wallis Simpson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: royalty
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 19, 1896 - April 24, 1986

Topics

LifeChallengeExperienceWomanOff

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

Jennifer Tilly

New YorkThoughtYouNewSaidWant

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

Robert Reich

FuturePeopleThinkAmericaYoung

When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant.

Robert J. Sawyer

FutureScienceYouScience Fiction

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.

Robert Kennedy

DemocracyCitizenshipRightsUsOnly

I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.

Andy Mineo

LifeSuccessMeProblemDoingNeed

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

John Updike

BookTrueWillWorstPredictThings

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about.

Steven Wright

GreatHeroMeBookRememberMeet

The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field where solemn gravitas isn't a drawback; it's the whole point.

Rob Sheffield

JobWorldThinkingImportantAnchor

Acting is something I love.

Rod Taylor

LoveActingSomethingI Love

Burlesque girls were alchemists. They were steel-tough performers who were willing to use kitchens as dressing rooms, haul their costume bags through the snow, and go into debt over fake diamonds, all for the five minutes onstage when they were goddesses.

Molly Crabapple

SnowDiamondsFakeGoDebtDressing

You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.

Luke Bryan

WomenBusinessThinkSexyYouWant

Man is an unhappy animal and one that can talk. If he was not unhappy, he would have nothing to talk about. But if he had nothing to talk about, he would be unhappy.

Louis MacNeice

ManAnimalUnhappyNothingTalkHe

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