Ziegfeld Theatre Quotes & Sayings

Every description is calculated for what it reveals, both about the character to whom it refers and the person whose attitude it represents ... As always in these descriptions, she has a knack for the unexpected word: tropical fish in a mural swim "insanely," and the apple trees on Pepper Street produce "wry unpalatable fruit." In "Notes for a Young Writer," a lecture on writing fiction composed as advice to her daughter Sarah, Jackson would relish the "grotesque effect" of the "absolutely wrong word": " 'I will always love you,' he giggled. — Ruth Franklin

That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me. — Danny Gatton

Completing the work He assigns us-joyful obedience to His will-is the way we glorify Him. Through obedience, we reflect the glory of the glorious One. — Susan Hunt

Don't rely on the president to win you the race. You can have the president help you. Use the popularity that he has. That may get you an ear into some of these voters, but he isn't going to close the deal. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I've become. The one I can't make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips. — Lysa TerKeurst

A hibernating snail doe not necessarily mean it is dead — Messaoud Mohammed

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do. — Sandy Berger

Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population. — Mo Ibrahim

I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth - bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way. — John Muir

Everything a captain does in a team room is done to keep the team loose. — Beth Daniel

Jesus, would you look at him. Hair too long and too blond. Eyes too sexy and too blue. Body too buff, ego in danger of liftoff. Standing there in his tight fitted jeans, painted-on T-shirt, and snakeskin boots, he looked like God's guilty gift. Trouble was, he knew it. — Cindy Gerard

Men (and women) indeed become strange when seeking gods. As the present work will show, however, they become even stranger when seeking devils. — Robert Anton Wilson

A good businessman sees where others don't see. What I see, you may not see. You cannot see because that is the secret of the business ... the entire world is a big market waiting for anybody who knows the rules of the game. — Orji Uzor Kalu

Numbered are the days
of hunger stricken strays
a woman's curving taste
a paper police state. — Virginia Petrucci

But I'd rather look like you than be pretty, she told Anne sincerely.
Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting. — L.M. Montgomery