Martha Bibescu Quotes & Sayings

[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life. — Dorothy Parker

My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes. — Jim Crace

The world spares only those who remain modest and humble - and even then only for an interval, no more. — Sandor Marai

The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye. — Ron Livingston

I educated myself, and it made me feel good. I went to museums. I read books. I did all the things, pretty much, that you would do in school. I would never want my kids to leave school, though, I'm really for education. — Stephanie Seymour

Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working so many hours. — America Ferrera

I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing. — Kristen Wiig

I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this. — Courtney Love

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too. — William Cowper

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him. — Madeleine L'Engle