Carol Storm > Carol's Quotes

“A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.”
― Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman

“Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.”
― Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman

“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.”
― Margaret George, Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

“A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“Successful women don't sleep until noon.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Being Elizabeth

“There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep

“I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Her Own Rules

“Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.”
― Anya Seton, Dragonwyck

“Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Her Own Rules

“You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Being Elizabeth

“Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?”
― Erich von Daniken, Chariots of The Gods

“Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.”
― Margaret George, Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

“DiMaggio's grace came to represent more than athletic skill in those years. To the men who wrote about the game, it was a talisman, a touchstone, a symbol of the limitless potential of the human individual. That an Italian immigrant, a fisherman's son, could catch fly balls the way Keats wrote poetry or Beethoven wrote sonatas was more than just a popular marvel. It was proof positive that democracy was real. On the baseball diamond, if nowhere else, America was truly a classless society. DiMaggio's grace embodied the democracy of our dreams.”
― David Halberstam, Summer of '49

“For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”
― Rod Serling

“Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.”
― Eugene O'Neill, The Emperor Jones

“I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr Wrong

“Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in a notoriously rootless nation. They are squeamishly incurious about the past and numbly certain about the future to this grisly extent: they suspect that they, too, will kill themselves.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads & Departamental Ditties and Ballads

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.”
― James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie

“The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.”
― Bertrice Small, Lost Love Found

“Dear child, there are few problems in life which kindness and common sense cannot make simple and manageable.”
― Mary Burchell, To Journey Together / I And My Heart / Windy Night, Rainy Morrow

“My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Being Elizabeth

“The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.”
― Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

“Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Playing The Game

“Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Power of a Woman