Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eve Ensler

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

Ben Affleck

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

Bonnie Somerville

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.

Denise Richards

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

Viva Bianca

When I was a little girl at school, I really wanted to be Katie or Sarah or Sophie. When you're a little girl at school, you want to be like the other little girls.

Natalie du Toit

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

Rebecca Romijn

I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermodel, beautiful girlfriend roles. I mean, playing somebody who's perfect holds no allure for me, whatsoever. It's just boring.

C. S. Lewis

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

C. S. Lewis

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?" "I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class." "You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?" "Well my mum's name is Helen..." "Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

Demetri Martin

We do not allow dwarf tossing. If you toss a dwarf, the dwarf will be tossed right back at you, but faster.

C. S. Lewis

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

George Herbert

A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.

Molly Ivins

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.

J. R. R. Tolkien

That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).

J. R. R. Tolkien

And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

Chelsea Peretti

Why are old maps always burnt?

Edward Said

It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.

Albert Einstein

You can't use an old map to explore a new world.

Alfred Korzybski

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...

Aldo Leopold

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

Adrienne Rich

A language is a map of our failures

Adrienne Rich

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

Dougray Scott

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

Mike Horner

Since the first day we had our meeting, the very first question and observation has been that the maps we have now are not right.