My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.
Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.
Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.
Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.
I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.