Susan Quotes - page 2

Meryl Streep, in her Protestant way, is stuck on words; she flashes clever accents as a mask for her deeper failures. (And she cannot deliver a Jewish line; she destroyed Nora Ephron's snappy dialogue in Hearburn.) Streep's work doesn't travel. Try dubbing her for movie houses in India: there'd be nothing left, just that bony, earnest horse face moving its lips. Imagine, on the other hand, lesser technicians like Hedy Lammarr, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner: these women have an international and universal appeal, crossing the centuries. They would have been beautiful in Egypt, Greece, Rome, medieval Burgundy, or eighteenth-century Paris. Susan Hayward played Bathsheba. Try to picture Streep in a Bible epic! Streep is incapable of playing the great legendary or mythological roles. She has no elemental power, no smouldering sensuality. (Camille Paglia)
Susan [Silver] was really busy with one of her bands, and there was about a month where I never left the house. I didn't go out in public; I didn't talk to anyone on the phone-I went a little psycho. If I hadn't been alone so long, I would not have gone as far as I actually went. But one day, I went from wondering what I would look like with a shaved head to ‘That's pretty cool.' Then I put my hair in a big envelope and mailed it off to my wife. The funny thing was, I did this really silly, personal thing for no reason, and then all of a sudden it was on MTV News and in Newsweek, and I still hadn't left the house. I thought it was strange, because I don't know how anyone found out about my hair, and I don't know why they cared. View quote
Chris Cornell
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence. View quote
Anne Lamott
Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full. View quote
Elayne Boosler
No dolphin came, no Nereid stirred; Nor cruel Tom, nor Susan heard. A favourite has no friend! View quote
Thomas Gray
In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household. View quote
Harpo Marx
The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me. View quote
Jane Austen
Susan Brooks was one of those girls who never say anything unless called upon, the ones the teachers always have to ask to speak up, please. A very studious, very serious girl. A rather pretty but not terribly bright girl -- the kind who isn't allowed to give up and take the general or the commercial courses, because she had a terribly bright older brother or older sister, and the teachers expect comparable things from her. In fine, one of those girls who are holding the dirty end of the stick with as much good grace and manners as they can muster. Usually they marry truck drivers and move to the West Coast, where they have kitchen nooks with Formica counters -- and they write letters to the Folks Back East as seldom as they can get away with. They make quiet, successful lives for themselves and grow prettier as the shadow of the bright older brother or sister falls away from them. View quote
Stephen King
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone. View quote
Douglas Adams
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry. (Terry Pratchett)
Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway! View quote
Robbie Williams
Susan Lucci was the biggest star in the daytime galaxy, and she served it up hot and fresh and chic five days a week. Before there was Joan Collins's Alexis Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan on 'Dynasty,' there was Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery on 'All My Children.' View quote
Andy Cohen
Light came into the darkness, but the darkness didn't understand it," Susan said. "Look to the light. Only the light can save you from yourself. View quote
Ted Dekker
You know when people say fine, it generally means ‘leave me the hell alone because I don't want to talk about what's really bothering me.' (Susan) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know the legend. Stab them in the heart and they'll die. (Ravyn) Call me Buffy. I'm even blond, but don't ask me to wear a halter top. Or corset. (Susan) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why must every relationship I have be so damned impossible? (Ravyn) Hey now, defeatist talk from a catman like you? I'm the one who should be freaking out here. I mean, damn, you could give me fleas or something. (Susan) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone. View quote
Brad Meltzer
If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon. (Geraldine Brooks)
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward. View quote
Parker Posey
I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like. View quote
Beth Richardson Gutcheon
My aunt is a famous L.A. chef, Susan Feniger, and she's got Street and Border Grill. So a fun night out for me is to go to my aunt's restaurants. View quote
Ben Feldman
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag. View quote
Caitlin Moran