How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it.

I know about women. I know that they're not men.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and perhaps unpleasant changes.

I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn’t on its own and that it had to come out.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.