Lillie Langtry Quotes
British - Actress October 13, 1853 - February 12, 1929

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.
Lillie Langtry

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry

Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.
Lillie Langtry

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.
Lillie Langtry

Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.
Lillie Langtry

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.
Lillie Langtry

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
Lillie Langtry

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
Lillie Langtry

I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.
Lillie Langtry

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?
Lillie Langtry

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.
Lillie Langtry

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.
Lillie Langtry

I do not regret one moment of my life.
Lillie Langtry

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.
Lillie Langtry

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
Lillie Langtry

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.
Lillie Langtry

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.
Lillie Langtry

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.
Lillie Langtry

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
Lillie Langtry

I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.
Lillie Langtry

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
Lillie Langtry

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.
Lillie Langtry

After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
Lillie Langtry

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.
Lillie Langtry

I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts.
Lillie Langtry

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.
Lillie Langtry

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
Lillie Langtry

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
Lillie Langtry

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
Lillie Langtry

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
Lillie Langtry

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
Lillie Langtry


Lenny Bruce Quotes
American - Comedian October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966

I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.
Lenny Bruce

There are never enough I Love You's.
Lenny Bruce

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
Lenny Bruce

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Lenny Bruce

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
Lenny Bruce

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
Lenny Bruce

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny Bruce

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.
Lenny Bruce

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
Lenny Bruce

A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.
Lenny Bruce

If God made the body, and the body is dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.
Lenny Bruce

I don't have an act. I just talk. I'm just Lenny Bruce.
Lenny Bruce

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Lenny Bruce

I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate, and their comment would be, 'He's really slaughtering Nixon.' Then we would all go to another apartment, and the Nixon fans would say, 'How do you like the shellacking he gave Kennedy?'
Lenny Bruce

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
Lenny Bruce

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.
Lenny Bruce

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce

I don't read enough books, so I guess I'm pretty shallow. I'm a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.
Lenny Bruce

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Lenny Bruce

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.
Lenny Bruce

Today, I give my daughter what I really didn't have as a kid: all the silly, dumb, extravagant, frilly, nonfunctional toys I can force on her. She probably wants an encyclopedia.
Lenny Bruce

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.
Lenny Bruce

Communism is like one big phone company.
Lenny Bruce


Paul Simon Quotes
American - Musician Born: October 13, 1941

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
Paul Simon

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
Paul Simon

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
Paul Simon

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
Paul Simon

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.
Paul Simon

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
Paul Simon

Who am I to blow against the wind?
Paul Simon

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
Paul Simon

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.
Paul Simon

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
Paul Simon

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.
Paul Simon

Listen to the sound of silence.
Paul Simon

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
Paul Simon

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
Paul Simon

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
Paul Simon

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
Paul Simon

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
Paul Simon

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Paul Simon

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
Paul Simon

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
Paul Simon

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
Paul Simon

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.
Paul Simon

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
Paul Simon

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
Paul Simon

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.
Paul Simon

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
Paul Simon

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Paul Simon

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
Paul Simon

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
Paul Simon

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.
Paul Simon

We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.
Paul Simon

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.
Paul Simon

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
Paul Simon

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.
Paul Simon

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
Paul Simon

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
Paul Simon

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
Paul Simon

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.
Paul Simon

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
Paul Simon

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
Paul Simon

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.
Paul Simon

I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.
Paul Simon

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.
Paul Simon

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
Paul Simon

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
Paul Simon

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
Paul Simon

I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.
Paul Simon

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.
Paul Simon

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
Paul Simon

I always get very calm with baseball.
Paul Simon

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
Paul Simon

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
Paul Simon

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
Paul Simon

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
Paul Simon

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.
Paul Simon

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
Paul Simon

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.
Paul Simon

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Paul Simon