Shirley Karr Quotes

Having realized that her affection for Sinclair went far beyond friendship, there was only one thing for her to do. She took off her hat and banged her head against the nearest lamppost.
Also realizing she was drawing attention from passerby, she put her hat back on and resumed walking. ~ Shirley Karr

Shirley, "the little brown boy," as he was known in the family "Who's Who," was asleep in Susan's arms. He was brown-haired, brown-eyed and brown-skinned, with very rosy cheeks, and he was Susan's especial love. After his birth Anne had been very ill for a long time, and Susan "mothered" the baby with a passionate tenderness which none of the other children, dear as they were to her, had ever called out. Dr. Blythe had said that but for her he would never have lived. "I ~ L.M. Montgomery

There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends. ~ Shirley Jones

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven. ~ Shirley Jackson

Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it. ~ Shirley Horn

Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him. ~ Shirley Corder

I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself. ~ Shirley Maclaine

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! ~ Shirley Manson

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference. What can I say to a man who asks that? All I can do is try to explain to him why he asks the question. You have looked at us for years as different from you that you may never see us really. You don't understand because you think of us as second-class humans. We have been passive and accommodating through so many years of your insults and delays that you think the way things used to be is normal. When the good-natured, spiritual-singing boys and girls rise up against the white man and demand to be treated like he is, you are bewildered. All we want is what you want, no less and no more. (Chapter 13). ~ Shirley Chisholm

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness. ~ Shawn Amos

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference. ~ John Shirley

We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No. ~ Shirley Jones

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives. ~ Shirley Jackson

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. ~ Alphonse Karr

Sometimes in the dark of the night we see what we want, wish for things that can never be, have hope we shouldn't. ~ Kim Karr

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves. ~ Shirley Chisholm

Some of the people in the village had real faces that I knew and could hate individually; Jim ~ Shirley Jackson

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth. ~ Shirley Maclaine

Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley ~ L.M. Montgomery

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked. ~ Jane Horrocks

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. ~ Alphonse Karr

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. Their first rule is "don't rock the boat." If someone makes trouble and you can get him, do it. If you can't get him, bring him in. Give him some of the action, let him have a taste of power. Power is all anyone wants, and if he has a promise of it as a reward for being good, he'll be good. Anyone who does not play by those rules is incomprehensible to most politicians. ~ Shirley Chisholm

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall. ~ Shirley Manson

My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson. ~ Marina And The Diamonds

Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you - Anne Shirley ~ L.M. Montgomery

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real. ~ Shirley Maclaine

Help me to get my eyes off my suffering and onto you, God. ~ Shirley Corder

That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions. ~ Shirley Chisholm

Constance and Merricat are indeed "two halves of the same person," together forming one identity, just as a man and a woman are traditionally supposed to do in marriage. Not finding that wholeness in marriage, Jackson sought it elsewhere … Indeed, the novel, in its final version, is not about "two women murdering a man." It is about two women who metaphorically murder male society and its expectations for them by insisting on living separate from it, governed only by themselves. ~ Ruth Franklin

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater. ~ Shirley Knight

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes. ~ Shirley Williams

You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed? ~ Shirley Jackson

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. ~ Shirley Jackson

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty. ~ Shirley Manson

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. ~ Shirley Temple

THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining. ~ Stephen King