Arlene Quotes & Sayings

You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets. — Arlene Dickinson

It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener. — Arlene Francis

You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away. — Arlene Blum

Too much rouge is a sign of despair. — Arlene Dahl

The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer. — Arlene J. Chai

The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality. — Arlene J. Chai

I've got a lot of businesses that I've invested in and I am really enjoying it. — Arlene Dickinson

We can fight fire with water provided we can get it there soon enough. But often we act when it's too late. The result is splattered in the pages of our history: bloodbaths, uprisings, revolutions, you name. And on it goes. We learn so slowly. After so many centuries, we're still a people who eat fire and drink water.' 'Why bother,then?' 'Because we have to believe that one day we'll learn. — Arlene J. Chai

I believe my high school book said I was most likely to become a candlestick maker. Guessing I didn't exactly exude confidence but just goes to show you that your path is yours to choose and make the best of and not for someone else to tell you what you can or cannot be. — Arlene Dickinson

Arlene and I have to get a divorce. She thinks I'm a pervert because I drank our water bed. — Woody Allen

Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain. — Arlene Blum

The true measure of success isn't winning, it's whether you won & could actually deliver. — Arlene Dickinson

I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen. — Charlaine Harris

My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things. — Arlene Dickinson

You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo. — Arlene Dahl

The eldest ones said that the laughter and tears are sewn right into the quilt, part and parcel, stitch by stitch. Emotions, experiences, heartbreak, mourning, pain and regret, stitched into the cloth, along with happiness, satisfaction, cheer, comfort, and love. The finished quilts were a living thing, a reflection of the spirits of its creators. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Daddy said that nobody really wins a war. They only make it look that way. — Arlene Eisenbise

A masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive. — Arlene Croce

If you want success, roll your sleeves up and fight for it! — Arlene Brown

I will always remember that year in Almonte, and how their sun seemed to shine a little brighter, and the Mississippi seemed to rush along a little quicker through their town. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable. — Arlene Dahl

Hershey was a source of pride for the townspeople of Smiths Falls, and was the instrument that put food on many tables. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

The air was fresh and crisp and had a distinct smell which was a mixture of the dried leaves on the ground and the smoke from the chimneys and the sweet ripe apples that were still clinging onto the branches in the orchard behind the house. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music. — Arlene Croce

If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself. — Arlene Francis

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world. — Arlene Raven

I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts ... I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's lives. — Arlene J. Chai

Darling, I have a tip," Arlene said. "Never, ever wait for a man. — Judy Blundell

It's a funny thing about love. You can't make it right when it's wrong and you can't make it wrong when it's right, no matter how hard you try. — Arlene James

Every unhappy person thinks her unhappiness is unique. — Arlene J. Chai

Watch it ... people who keep things inside them develop all sorts of disease ... all that emotional gunk's got to find an outlet. Angry people develop cysts; stubborn people get arthritis; resentful people die of cancer. — Arlene J. Chai

I believe its a lifestyle choice and like any lifestyle choice it will be what you make of it and how fully you live and enjoy it. — Arlene Dickinson

Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind. — Arlene Croce

Arlene was one of a kind, a true friend when I needed one, a grande dame from the old school. She was the sweetest of old ladies, and I will miss her dearly. All of those things are true, but the words I choose are far more profound.
"She smelled like cookies," I whisper through tears. — David Arnold

You have to respect yourself before you can command a guy's respect. — Arlene James

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man. — Arlene Croce

Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever. And I will carry this. It is the police shield of a man named George Howard who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others. It was given to me by his mom, Arlene, as a proud memorial to her son. It is my reminder of lives that ended and a task that does not end. — George W. Bush

Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,
And imprint forever upon our hearts
That this is home
and that we are loved. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

He drew some relief from knowing that she was happy doing whatever the hell it was she did. Sometimes it seemed to him she was the only happy person he knew, and that frightened him so badly it made him want to curl up and die. — Arlene Hunt

We don't always come out unbreakable the first time. So we are broken and rebuilt several times, until there is no question that we can stand on our own — Arlene Lagos

I would say my mind is always working - no matter where I am I continue to see opportunities all around me. My only sorrow is that I can't possibly explore them all! — Arlene Dickinson

It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever! — Arlene Hunt

It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Dinner was served on mismatched plates with paper napkins and silverware that looked like it had been stolen from a school cafeteria. The spaghetti was from a box that was still poking out of the garbage pail, the sauce from a jar that was sitting beside the sink. I got the definite impression that he chose to make dinner because he couldn't afford to take me out. — Arlene Schindler

As long as you believe what you're doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step. — Arlene Blum

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. — Arlene Francis

Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth. — Arlene Blum

Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness. — Arlene Dahl

Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time. — Arlene Dahl

Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly — Charlaine Harris

Authenticity inspire respect because it takes courage to own who you really are. — Arlene Dickinson

People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes. — Arlene Dickinson

We stepped a little quicker, laughed a little louder and chatted over the fences a little longer. We gathered bouquets of wildflowers, dined on fresh strawberries and began to ride our bikes up and down the Third Line again. We ran up grassy hills and rolled back down through the young clover, feeling light and giddy, free from our heavy boots and coats. There were trilliums to pick for Mother and tadpoles to catch and keep in a jar. Spring had come at last to Bathurst Township and was she ever worth the wait! — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals. — Arlene J. Chai

Who knows what goes on in that girl's head? Who knows what goes on in anybody's head really? — Arlene Hunt

But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear ...
You are in the city of lies. — Arlene J. Chai

How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first? — Arlene Dahl

Heya, Arlene. What's shakin'?" Cotton greeted.
"Don't shift some of this weight, everything," Arlene replied. — Kristen Ashley

When autumn gusts blew in from the Rideau Lakes, parched brown leaves swirled and scattered around the sides of the neglected building, forming mounds like grave-markers, for ghosts of the past, who lingered on the dust-covered dance floor. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers ... — Arlene Francis

It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse. — Arlene Francis

It's no time to be sweet - we are tender, flammable, so light, we are the orphaned ones of lovers. — Arlene Kim

Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content. — Arlene J. Chai

Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. They live side by side. The rich live in sprawling houses in residential subdivisions with fancy names like Green Meadows, White Plains, Corinthian Plaza, Bel Air, San Lorenzo, Magallanes and the very exclusive Forbes Park, a leafy enclave that was home to the famous Manila Polo Club. The poor are not far from sight. They live in little pockets on the periphery of these affluent subdivisions. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life. — Arlene J. Chai

a happy wife is a woman who is happy with her Lord. — Arlene Pellicane

Life is the best party I've ever been invited to. — Arlene Francis

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't. — Arlene Croce

With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicans' embrace of a broken immigration system. — Arlene Holt Baker

importance. A control knob cracked into a tiny mess in his careful hand. — Arlene Webb

With enthusiasm anything is possible, — Arlene Dahl

We need only to close our eyes and we are back on the Third Line, walking up the lane, through the yard and entering the bright, warm kitchen. We are home again. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get. — Arlene Francis

The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole. — Arlene J. Chai

I want to own my own business because then I can be in control of everything. — Arlene Dickinson

The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment. — Arlene Blum

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star. — Arlene Dahl

On harsh, frigid January days, when the winds are relentless and the snow piles up around us, I often think of our small feathered friends back on the Third Line. I wonder if the old feeder is still standing in the orchard and if anyone thinks to put out a few crumbs and some bacon drippings for our beautiful, hungry, winter birds. In the stark, white landscape they provided a welcome splash of colour and their songs gave us hope through the long, silent winter. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Ballet is only good when it is great. — Arlene Croce

Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all. — Arlene Francis

Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling. — Sanjeev Bhaskar

We had some memorable times, on those long, hot summer nights, along the shores of the mighty Rideau; but we were by no means the first to do so. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Autumn in the country advances in a predictable path, taking its place among the unyielding rhythms of the passing seasons. It follows the summer harvest, ushering in cooler nights, and shorter days, enveloping all of Lanark County in a spectacular riot of colour. Brilliant hues of yellow, orange and red exclaim, in no uncertain terms, that these are the trees where maple syrup legends are born. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy. — Arlene Croce

I come from a long line of miserable people. — Arlene Schindler

The past was nothing, a dream; it could not be touched or altered. It was, in his view, worthless. — Arlene Hunt

Hero. People didn't even know the meaning of the word. — Arlene Hunt

Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it. — Arlene J. Chai

Having less power doesn't mean you are of lesser worth and therefore don't have anything to offer — Arlene Dickinson

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats. — Arlene Francis

Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you. — Arlene Francis

sewing room. She was back a moment later with a — Arlene Sachitano

There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap. — Arlene Dickinson

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few brief minutes and then the wind blows away your footprints — Arlene Blum

I am excited to be able to do something at this stage in my life that I feel is going to have some meaning. More helping people from a financial perspective understand their own strengths and lend a voice to things that I think are socially important. — Arlene Dickinson

Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning — Arlene Goldbard

These women with their talk of capricious personal gods, devils and spirits, yet here he was, the greatest devil any of them could imagine, flying easily under their radar. — Arlene Hunt

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do. — Arlene Croce

If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule! — Arlene Francis

Looking around, from near the top of Foley Mountain, it was easy to imagine why the early settlers decided to make their home in Westport. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Take each other for better or worse, but not for granted. — Arlene Dahl