quotes about Conan

“My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.”

“Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.”

“Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things - enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult

“I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.”

“I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I had something of a fetish for what he called "Haute Couture Vulgarity."”

“Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl around the mountain cap--her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.”

“What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?”

“For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.”

“Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.”

“I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.”