Side Quotes
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
I have been very happy very rich very beautiful much adulated very famous and very unhappy.
I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.
If I were given a change of life I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.
On the outside one is a star. But in reality one is completely alone doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.
There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline in some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.
I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual for what the gods had given him.
Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.
Oh I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other who he assumes to have perfect vision.
Wanting to change to improve a person's situation means offering him for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.
When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too densely it is too thickly populated the future has not yet thinned out.
This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
We all lose our looks eventually better develop your character and interest in life.
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas-that's what my grandma taught me.
I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean period. So you know I don't like myself.
No Doctor I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old.
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years and that too with surprising strides.
I look forward to being older when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.
The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that the rest really comes from it.
Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you so can the things it brought.
If you're considered a beauty it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.
People see you as an object not as a person and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing but actually it sets you apart.
I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me but they don't.
When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.
For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?
