The Lady Vanishes Quotes

Whenever you give up an apartment in New York and move to another city, New York turns into the worst version of itself. Someone I know once wisely said that the expression "It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there" is completely wrong where New York is concerned; the opposite is true. New York is a very livable city. But when you move away and become a vistor, the city seems to turn against you. It's much more expensive (because you need to eat all your meals out and pay for a place to sleep) and much more unfriendly. Things change in New York; things change all the time. You don't mind this when you live here; when you live here, it's part of the caffeinated romance to this city that never sleeps. But when you move away, your experience change as a betrayal. You walk up Third Avenue planning to buy a brownie at a bakery you've always been loyal to, and the bakery's gone. Your dry cleaner move to Florida; your dentist retires; the lady who made the pies on West Fourth Street vanishes; the maitre d' at P.J. Clarke's quits, and you realize you're going to have to start from scratch tipping your way into the heart of the cold, chic young woman now at the down. You've turned your back from only a moment, and suddenly everything's different. You were an insider, a native, a subway traveler, a purveyor of inside tips into the good stuff, and now you're just another frequent flyer, stuck in a taxi on Grand Central Parkway as you wing in and out of La Guardia. M ~ Nora Ephron

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. ~ Patricia Highsmith

One short man said: "I would give anything if only I were even a tiny bit taller."
He barely said it when he saw a lady magician standing in front of him.
"What do you want?" says the magician.
But the short man just stands there so frightened he can't even speak.
"Well?" says the magician.
The short man just stands there and says nothing. The magician vanishes.
Then the short man started crying and biting his nails. First he chewed off all the nails on his fingers, and then on his toes.

Reader! Think this fable over and it will make you somewhat uncomfortable. ~ Daniil Kharms

If time stops, space makes no sense and matter vanishes away when you think of her ... . then you found your lady. ~ Sameh Elsayed

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband. ~ Lady Bird Johnson

Life is like a mist, it appears for a while then vanishes. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Snap. Lady with dog. Lady on sofa half-naked. Snap. Naked lady. Lady next to dresser. Lady at window. Snap. Lady on balcony sunlight. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq) ~ Michael Ondaatje

Don't be a drag.
Just be a queen. ~ Lady Gaga

It's false advertising to call Mrs. Obama the First Lady. First Woman, maybe, but certainly not a lady. Ann Romney is an actual lady. ~ Mitt Romney

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10 ~ Lady Gaga

That's Right Hunny-B ~ Lady Gaga

I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet. ~ Lady Gaga

They can't scare me, if I scare them first. ~ Lady Gaga

Live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other
-Lady Gaga via twitter ~ Lady Gaga

For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing. ~ Lady Gaga

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Oh my love, I like to vanish in you like a ripple vanishes in an ocean - slowly, silently, and endlessly. ~ Debasish Mridha

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it. ~ Lady Gaga

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it. ~ Richard M. Nixon

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away. ~ Lady Gaga

So that's what it's like? All of a sudden all possibility just vanishes? A life full of projects, discussions just started, desires not even fulfilled - it all vanishes in a second and there's nothing left, nothing left to do, and there's no going back? ~ Muriel Barbery

My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me. ~ Lady Gaga

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady. ~ Lady Randolph Churchill

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart! ~ Lady Bird Johnson

Money can run out, but talent is forever. ~ Lady Gaga

Off to the STUDIO in my new whip ~ Lady Gaga

You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen. ~ Leo McCarey

I'd rather hurt than feel nothing at all. ~ Lady Antebellum

I thought equality was non-negotiable. ~ Lady Gaga

I'm a free bitch baby ~ Lady Gaga

We need fantasy to survive reality ~ Lady Gaga

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description ... You have to create it for yourself. ~ Hillary Clinton

Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike. ~ L'Wren Scott

You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist? ~ J. B. Smoove

But if we were to realize that we are, as it were, all action, all deed - the doer vanishes, and with it vanishes this sense of man as something separate, something cut off, walled away from the rest of the world by his skin. When that realization comes about; when, in other words, our own separateness disappears, we have what the Buddha called nirvana ~ Alan W. Watts

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,'Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today. ~ Lady Gaga

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans. ~ Lady Gaga

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection. ~ Lady Gaga

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice. ~ Lady Gaga

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart ~ Lady Gaga

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed. ~ Zadie Smith

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way. ~ Lady Gaga

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious. ~ Suzanne Fields

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time. ~ Lady Gaga

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist ~ Lady Gaga

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady. ~ Juliette Lewis

Methinks the lady doth protest too much," said Iago.

"Methinks the lady protests just the right amount," said Emilia. "Methinks the lady is just getting fucking started protesting. ~ Christopher Moore

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful. ~ Danielle Steel

If God calls you, pick up the damn phone! ~ Lady G

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else. ~ Lady Gaga

I'm not a vomit in the club kinda girl. ~ Lady Gaga

Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself. love yourself. ~ Lady Gaga

My talent matters more to me than the money does. ~ Lady Gaga

Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world. ~ Pat Nixon

You dont need money, or plastic surgery to be a star ~ Lady G

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy. ~ Lady Gaga

No family is ever what it seems from the outside. ~ Lady Violet

It's the job of grandmothers to interfere. ~ Lady Violet

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical. ~ Lady Gaga

Out! out! damned spot ..All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweaten this little hand ~ Lady Macbeth

Some of us wear the mask prouder than others. ~ Lady Gaga

Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope. ~ Lady Bird Johnson

Reading was fundamental and some of these hoes couldn't even formulate a sentence. ~ Mz. Lady P

I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady. ~ Florence Welch

When you touch me I die, just a little inside, I wonder if THIS COULD BE LOVE ~ Lady Gaga

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it. ~ Lady Gaga

Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame wont take my life. ~ Lady Gaga

What Britain needs is an iron lady. ~ Margaret Thatcher

It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing. ~ Jenny Lawson

Michelle has had to grapple with Hilary Clinton's legacy as First Lady ... Michelle Obama never wants to be seen as the kind of First Lady who is overly involved in the West Wing. ~ Jodi Kantor

Despite Ace being apologetic, the devil lives inside of him and that would never go away. ~ Mz. Lady P

She is a girl and would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself. ~ Lady Augusta Gregory

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love - you know, things I don't care about anymore. ~ Lady Gaga

I don't want to live in a country where a government decides if you were raped or not. ~ Lady Gaga

Nothing that we do together has a finish line. You & I, Little Monsters, we are eternal. ~ Lady Gaga

I don't like talking to celebrities. ~ Lady Gaga

Some things a lady doesn't tell. ~ Kim Hunter

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide. ~ Russell Lynes

Love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you ~ Lady Gaga

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs. ~ Elizabeth Edwards

I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and 'Moneyball's one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager. ~ Billy Beane

The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower. ~ Oleg Cassini

For better or worse, she was the lady Soraya. And the lady Soraya would never dream of missing the warm bulk of Casia's body between her and the hearth, or the comforting drone of Ludo's snores. Or the wry laughter of a slave ... a slave, for Azura's sake! The lady Soraya needed no one.
The lady Soraya cried herself to sleep. ~ Hilari Bell

Death is not the consummation of oneself but just the end of oneself. Before the self vanishes nothing really is, and that is how it is most of the time. But as soon as the self vanishes everything is, and becomes automatically the object of love. Love holds the world together, and if we could forget ourselves everything in the world would fly into a perfect harmony, and when we see beautiful things that is what they remind us of. ~ Iris Murdoch

I've never really been a part of anything but my own project. ~ Lady Sovereign

The sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents. ~ Lady Caroline Lamb

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party. ~ Lady Violet

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light ~ Lady Gaga

At the end of the day, you won't be happy unil you love yourself. ~ Lady Gaga

If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home. ~ Lady Gaga

I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'. ~ Olivia D'Abo

People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about ~ Lady Gaga

Confidence is key, if you don't have it, fake it! ~ Lady Gaga

If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light. ~ Lady Gaga

My mama told me when I was young we're all born SUPERSTARS! ~ Lady Gaga

There's more learning than is taught in books. ~ Lady Gregory

I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer. ~ Ruth Rendell

Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think. ~ Lady Gaga

You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine. ~ Lady Gaga

Never bully anyone because Karma has everyone's address and a motherf**king stamp! ~ Lady Gaga