Joan Crawford

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell

Don't fuck with me, fellas. This cowgirl has been to the rodeo before.

I find suggestion a hell of a lot more provocative than explicit detail. You didn't see Clark[Gable] and Vivien[leigh] rolling around in bed in Gone With The Wind, but you saw that shit eating grin on her face the next morning and you knew damned well she'd gotten properly laid.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresser.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.

1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it.
2. Choose your clothes for your way of life.
3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.
4. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.
5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are!

If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

Coco Chanel

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. 

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

Audrey Hepburn

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.

Alice Hoffman

Books may well be the only true magic.

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

I think I deserve something beautiful.

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

Mae West

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. 

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

I'm single because I was born that way.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

You are never too old to become younger!

The score never interested me, only the game.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. 

E. B. White

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

This is what youth must figure out:
Girls, love, and living.
The having, the not having,
The spending and giving,
And the meloncholy time of not knowing.

This is what age must learn about:
The ABC of dying.
The going, yet not going,
The loving and leaving,
And the unbearable knowing and knowing

Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

God has no religion.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

Seven Deadly Sins
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.