She Quotes

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

~ Jack Germond

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

~ Winston Churchill

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.

~ Henry Petroski

My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.

~ Rj Mitte

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

~ Harry Connick

I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

~ Anna Kendrick

I like Penny. She's cool. Yeah, she dates some idiots, but, although, so have I. So yeah, I would be friends with her. We'd have a lot to talk about.

~ Kaley Cuoco

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

~ Twinkle Khanna

My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much the only form of communication we had.

~ Jarrett J. Krosoczka

My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

~ Ashley Tisdale

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.

~ Geoff Dyer

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

~ Anne Lamott

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

~ Danica Mckellar

The most famous actress who did the 'dumb blond' routine was Marilyn Monroe, but she was a genius actress.

~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

~ Courtney Love

Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as her performances.

~ Alexander Chee

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

~ Alexander Smith

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

~ Charles Brenton Huggins

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

~ Jane Howard

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

~ Vernon Law

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

~ Maya Lin

For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.

~ Aisha Tyler

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

~ Gaby Hoffmann

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.

~ Peter Dinklage

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

~ Daryl Hall

There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK weekend, and a little first-grader stood up, and he said, 'I can explain segregation,' and proceeded to explain all the scenes from 'Hidden Figures.' And I died because that's everything.

~ Allison Schroeder

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.

~ Kurt Masur

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

~ Gracie Allen

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

~ Jayne Meadows

The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.

~ John Burroughs

She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.

~ Helena Bonham Carter

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

~ Meg Cabot

Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

~ Louise J. Kaplan

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.

~ Mia Kirshner