B. J. Porter Quotes

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

I love different folks.

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness.

I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.

What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!

I do tend to overdo everything.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

I've always had an addictive nature.

Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

I read everything and anything. I love books.

I just don't think men fancy me.

When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.

I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.