Shelley Winters Quotes

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. ~ Shelley Winters

The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are. ~ Shelley Winters

Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it. ~ Shelley Winters

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married. ~ Shelley Winters

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long. ~ Shelley Winters

You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are. ~ Shelley Winters

In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition. ~ Shelley Winters

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems. ~ Shelley Winters

Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back. ~ Shelley Winters

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. ~ Shelley Winters

I'm just a Ragetty Anne in a Barbie Doll World ~ Shelley Winters

Sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish. ~ Shelley Winters

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work. ~ Shelley Winters

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing. ~ Shelley Winters

To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated. ~ Shelley Winters

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check. ~ Shelley Winters

We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. ~ Shelley Winters

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife ~ Shelley Winters

Voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of ma ~ Mary Shelley

The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever. ~ Cressida Cowell

The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them. ~ Parker J. Palmer

I tend to sleep a lot. ~ Dean Winters

When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises. ~ Richard Lewis

I became the same happy creature who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sorrow or care. ~ Mary Shelley

Everybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have. ~ Shelley Hennig

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear ~ Mary Shelley

Such,' he said,'O King, seems to me the present life of men on earth, in comparison with that time which to us is uncertain, as if when on a winter's night you sit feasting with your ealdormen and thegnsö a single sparrow should fly swiftly into the hall, and coming in at one door, instantly fly out through another. In that time in which it is indoors it is indeed not touched by the fury of the winter, and yet, this smallest space of calmness being passed almost in a flash, from winter going into winter again, it is lost to your eyes. Somewhat like this appears the life of man; but of what follows or what went before, we are utterly ignorant. ~ Bede

Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Far out of sight forever stands the sea,
Bounding the land with pale tranquillity. ~ Yvor Winters

Roses are red, Violets are blue. I'm just a fucked up hit man, And nothing rhymes with that. ~ Pepper Winters

The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me. ~ Mary Shelley

You're going to be okay," Winter said reassuringly.
You don't understand," Leven snapped.
What don't I understand?" Winters voice was stern. "Sorry you feel bad, but its not like you just met a person so beautiful that now you feel completely worthless."
What?" Leven said. "What are you talking about?"
Isaw the way you fell over yourselves to stare at her."
That was Geth."
Don't argue, you two," Geth said.
Were not arguing." Leven felt light-headed.
No," Winter confirmed. "We're just...."
Winter looked at Leven. Leven looked right back at her. Winters cheeks burned red and her green eyes outshone Leven's. The two of them stared at one other. Leven closed his eyes.
What are you doing?" Geth asked, concerned.
Winter closed her eyes too and leaned closer. Both of them looked panicked and out of control, but it didn't stop them from moving closer and kissing each other.
Clovers jaw dropped and he pulled something out of his void just so he could let go of it in shock. Even Geth looked caught off guard, as if he'd been given news that he never thought he'd hear in his lifetime.
Leven stumbled back and looked at Winter. His face was almost as red as hers. He looked at Geth and Clover and then back to Winter.
Well that was interesting," Clover said happily.
I don't know what....." Leven tried to say.
No, I......" Winter said. "Its not you.... it's just that my... I think I left something down below. ~ Obert Skye

Then the girl in the cafe taps me on the shoulder, I realise five years went by and I'm older, memories smoulder, winters colder, but that same piano loops over and over. ~ Mike Skinner

You have everything you need today to do what God has for you to do today. ~ Shelley Hendrix

Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I miss the days when everyone read the newspaper. We might not have agreed but at least we were all on the same page. ~ Shelley Malec Vitale

One accident or terrorist strike involving high-level waste would endanger lives and cause a catastrophe that would leave millions of dollars in damages and take years to clean up ~ Shelley Berkley

I'm in Love with you, you chocolate-kissing, night time stealing, gorgeous girl. And I'm pissed as hell about it. ~ Pepper Winters

Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don't wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that. ~ Zoe Winters

We have one unerring guide...Call it love, charity, or sympathy; it is the best, the angelic portion of us. It teaches us to feel pain at others pain, joy in their joy. The more entirely we mingle our emotions with those of others, making our well or ill being depend on theirs, the more completely do we cast away our selfishness, and approach the perfection of our nature. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

avoided explanation, and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created. I had a feeling that I should be supposed mad, and this for ever chained my tongue, when I would have given the whole world to have confided the fatal secret. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

That sweet sleep which medicines all pain. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley," I say. "You should've let him win. You know, to be polite." Shelley's response is a shake of her head. Applesauce drips on her chin. "That's the way it's going to be, huh?" I say, hoping the scene doesn't gross Alex out. Maybe I'm testing him, to see if he can handle a glimpse of my home life. If so, he's passing. "Wait until Alex leaves. I'll show you who the checkers champion is."
My sister smiles that sweet, crooked smile of hers. It's like a thousand words put into one expression. For a moment I forget Alex is still watching me. It's so weird having him inside my life and my house. He doesn't belong, yet he doesn't seem to mind being here. ~ Simone Elkeles

Going Home
Take a step towards home.

It is always the most simple
and
direct path.

Let the questions fall away.

The answers don't matter.

Just carry what you are given
and start walking. ~ Shelley Richardson

Even if we never read a second volume of a book, the characters continue to live on and on and on, and their stories merge into other stories, told by new generations of heroes and heroines. ~ Cat Winters

There is madness in every single being, is there not? ~ Delia Winters

I would remember him always. He would forget me tomorrow. ~ Pepper Winters

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. ~ John B. S. Haldane

Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies. ~ Mary Shelley

Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

It was a mild winter's evening in 'Japp's Saloon and Speakeasy', in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of the city. (The S.O.D.s believed in crime management.) Timaset Skooch leaned back in the aluminum framed chair, checking his cards carefully while wearing his best poker face. Across the table from him sat Jonn Deire, a large man who was trying very hard to out-poker face him and who didn't enjoy jokes about his name much. ~ Christina Engela

The world didn't matter. This was us. This was our fuckedupness learning how to live without guilt and shame. ~ Pepper Winters

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. ~ Mary Shelley

I wasn't ready to leave. Some masochistic shred of my being didn't want to walk away from him yet, even though staying defied logic and common sense. ~ Pepper Winters

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief. ~ Mary Shelley

Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop. ~ Shelley Berman

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been. ~ Shelley Fabares

I know the world seems terrifying right now and the future seems bleak. Just remember human beings have always managed to find the greatest strength within themselves during the darkest hours. When faced with the worst horrors the world has to offer, a person either cracks and succumbs to ugliness, or they salvage the inner core of who they are and fight to right wrongs.
Never Let hatred, fear, and ignorance get the best of you. Keep bettering yourself so you can make the world around you better, for nothing can improve without the brightest, bravest, kindest, and most imaginative individuals rising above the chaos. ~ Cat Winters

Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Storm In April"

Some winters, taking leave,
Deal us a last, hard blow,
Salting the ground like Carthage
Before they will go.

But the bright, milling snow
Which throngs the air today -
It is a way of leaving
So as to stay.

The light flakes do not weigh
The willows down, but sift
Through the white catkins, loose
As petal-drift

Or in an up-draft lift
And glitter at a height,
Dazzling as summer's leaf-stir
Chinked with light.

This storm, if I am right,
Will not be wholly over
Till green fields, here and there,
Turn white with clover,
And through chill air the puffs of milkweed hover. ~ Richard Wilbur

The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown. ~ P.J. Parker

Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch. ~ Shelley Long