Kilgallen Quotes & Sayings

I made so many B pictures I began to get fan mail from hornets...and for me that was an improvement. — Bob Hope

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is. — Adyashanti

The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling. — Dorothy Kilgallen

There is an end to everything on earth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is. — Margaret Kilgallen

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler. — Dorothy Kilgallen

On any day in the Mission in San Francisco, you can see a hand-painted sign that is kind of funky, and maybe that person, if they had money, would prefer to have had a neon sign. But I don't prefer that. I think it's beautiful, what they did and that they did it themselves. That's what I find beautiful. — Margaret Kilgallen

Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that. — Eric Andre

I was a little crazy. You know how it is, how you want to rush into something you know is going to happen, no matter what it is. I guess lovers and suicides both know that feeling. — William Faulkner

While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild creatures affords me a certain safeguard. Where all else is dangerous, hostile and liable to inflict pain, they alone can do me no injury because, probably, they are not even aware of my existence. The birds are at once my refuge and my relaxation. — Anna Kavan

Energy cannot be lost, only transformed; where do the words go? — Jeanette Winterson

One day the grandmother presented the little girl with a red velvet riding hood; and as it fitted her very well, she would never wear anything else; and so she was called Little Red Riding Hood. — Jacob Grimm

I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve. — Gregory David Roberts

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it. — Dorothy Kilgallen

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric. — Dorothy Kilgallen

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish! — Dorothy Kilgallen

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic. — Dorothy Kilgallen

I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men. — Dorothy Kilgallen

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win. — Dorothy Kilgallen

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence. — Dorothy Kilgallen

Why can't I be the adorable one? — Dorothy Kilgallen

The rival you both share is myself. I do not wish to marry ... First, because my past habituated me to loneliness. I had always thought I hated it. And now I have found I treasure it. I do not want to share my life. I wish to be what I am, not what a husband must expect me to become in marriage. My second reason is my present. I never expected to be happy in life. Yet I find myself happy where I am situated now. I have varied congenial work ... I am admitted to the daily conversation of genius. Such men have their faults. Their vices. But they are not those the world chooses to imagine. I have no genius myself, I have no more than the capacity to aid genius in very small and humble ways ... I believe I owe a debt to good fortune. I am not to seek it elsewhere. I am to see it as precarious, as a thing of which I must not allow myself to be bereft. — John Fowles

The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming. — Denzel Whitaker

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip. — Dorothy Kilgallen

My hand will always be imperfect because it's human ... I think that's where the beauty is. — Margaret Kilgallen

Having a background in doing printmaking and letterpress, I think that I became very interested in images that were flat and graphic. And my painting still today is very flat ... American craft is like that too
the painting is very flat. And also the painting that you see on the storefronts, handmade signs, tend to be very flat. That's probably my biggest influence ... — Margaret Kilgallen

I believe there need to be women visual in our every day landscape, working hard and doing their own thing, whether you like it or not, whether it's acceptable or not ... I especially hope to inspire young women because often I feel like so much emphasis is put on how beautiful you are, and how thin you are, and not a lot of emphasis is put on what you can do and how smart you are. I'd like to change that, change the emphasis of what's important when looking at a woman. — Margaret Kilgallen

If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see. — Margaret Kilgallen

Agitators were dispatched to Coalwood in droves and, very soon, wildcat strikes were hitting the mine every — Homer Hickam

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think. — Dorothy Kilgallen

King George V and Queen Mary had been inadequate parents. Both were shy, inhibited, inarticulate people, not given to displays of emotion or affection. — Theo Aronson