Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes
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I cry out for order and find it only in art.
There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.
An actress's life is so transitory - suddenly you're a building.
Childhood is a short season.
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.
If you rest, you rust.
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
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