Billie Holiday Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hushed as midnight silence. — John Dryden

Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks in the press corps will claim I ran out of money or just want to kiss John Corbett again. One of these things is true. — Nia Vardalos

The best disguises were those that were poured out of the heart rather than painted on the face. — Scott Lynch

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

It is, ... kind of a softball atmosphere out there. — Lance Berkman

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility. — Nikola Tesla

As the reputation of books is raised not by their freedom from defect, but the greatness of their beauties, so should that of men be prized not for their exemption from fault, but the size of those virtues they are possessed of. — Oliver Goldsmith

What did I know best that I had not written about
and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most? — Ernest Hemingway,

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists. — P. J. O'Rourke

I saw this huge billboard that said: 'Abortion Hurts' and then it had a drawing of a butterfly. Who is that for? Is there a lady who's going to see that and be like, 'Oh, I was going to get an abortion but now that I realize it hurts I guess I'll just give birth to a child! 'Cause I know that's painless and raising it should be a snap!' — Eugene Mirman

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

I think. I sense. I wonder. — Ilsa J. Bick