Dame Mary Cartwright Quotes & Sayings

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting. — Dabney Coleman

She's wonderful. Tell her I've never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you."
Waddington, smiling, translated the question.
"She says I'm good."
"As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue," Kitty mocked. — W. Somerset Maugham

This initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they sign the form or not. — Clive Ponting

Everyone claims to be a billionaire these days. But you're not really a billionaire until you spend your billions. - OVERHEARD AT THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB — Kevin Kwan

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. — Ruben Blades

I sat with it, the porn still going, the load of hate now trickling down the side of my hip and I wondered if there was a machine in existence that could possibly gauge how much I had regressed in the past five minutes. — Eric Monsky

In an effort to gain "converts," Christians often refrain from telling the full story. We want people to follow, so like cheap salesmen, we share the benefits without explaining the cost. We tell them about Jesus' promises of life and forgiveness, but we don't mention His calls for repentance and obedience. We avoid His promise that we will experience persecution. When we do this, we cheapen the gospel. — Francis Chan

The presence and the power of the glorified Christ will come to them that are of a humble spirit. — Andrew Murray

Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it. — David Keith

My eyes traced the lines of my hips, my convex stomach, the legs beneath my jeans.
What did the world see in me? — Jenny B. Jones

Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man, — Mario Puzo

And we would abandon it overnight if new evidence arose to disprove it. No real fundamentalist would ever say anything like that. — Richard Dawkins

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. — Charles Dickens

Hope was never meant to be
A future shared alone,
As life cannot be won or lost
It was never ours to own. — Frederic M. Perrin

It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched. — Steve Martin