Marlene's Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Marlene's Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.— Marlene Zuk
In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.— Frank Capra
I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.— Marlene Dietrich
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.— Marlene Dietrich
There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.— Marlene Caroselli
Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.— Marlene Dietrich
Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.— Marlene Van Niekerk
I love you with an awful intensity. Sometimes when I just sit in a trance staring at a piece of paper, pen poised and immovable, longing for you and remembering you and imagining you. I love you horribly and beautifully.— Marlene Wagman-Geller
There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.— Marlene Dumas
It's this or a short hospital stay," she said, greeting Scarlett with a raised glass of a deep red liquid with a celery stalk sticking out of the top. "Bloody Marys are one of the truly medicinal cocktails. The only way I can beat this jet lag is by staying up all day, and this is going to keep me alive. And who is this?"— Maureen Johnson
This was directed at Marlene, who was stalking along behind Scarlett like a wet cat.
On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.— Marlene Dietrich
I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.— Marlene Dumas
I'm a huge Marlene Dietrich fan. She's got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She's seen it all and done it all.— Jessica Pare
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.— Marlene Dietrich
This was a different Sally than Jo had first been presented with: the one with the carefully pencilled lips and brows, the modern Marlene Dietrich. With her make-up on, Sally could pass for being still in her twenties, perhaps only a little older than Jo. At a generous guess, she was about five and a half feet tall - if you counted her customary six-inch heels. But now, without her make-up and stilettos, Sally looked small, thin-lipped, and cynical. Jo decided that she liked this Sally better.— Elle Wild
Love is waiting for you, but you might need to wait until tomorrow.— Marlene Thornton
My mother, she killed me,— Jacob Grimm
My father, he ate me,
My sister Marlene,
Gathered all my bones,
Tied them in a silken scarf,
Laid them beneath the juniper tree,
Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.
Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.— Marlene Dietrich
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.— Marlene Dumas
Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously.— Marlene Steinberg
I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.— Ray Bradbury
For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.— Marlene Dietrich
Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.— Marlene Dietrich
Grumbling is the death of love.— Marlene Dietrich
Where's my white out?"— Marlene Simonette
"Chapter ten is missing!"
"Has anyone seen my socks?"
Linda spun around.
Mistress Yvonne gripped her shoulders. "This is a regular occurrence. No need to get involved."
Faint shouts echoed down the hall. "Leprechauns!
Dietrich would never do that— Marlene Dietrich
One answer turned up in the violent video games the two were obsessed with playing. Graphic effects realistic enough to blur the line between fantasy and reality allow these kill-for-thrill games to be used to break down a person's aversion to killing. At the time of the massacre, Doom, the game favored by one of the mass murderers, was being adapted by the Marine Corps for its own training purposes.— Marlene Steinberg
Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.— Marlene Dietrich
Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.— Maximilian Schell
I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.— Robert Wilson
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.— Marlene Dietrich
Personally, I want to die in dignity but my passing celebrated jollity. I've told my executors that I want a stand up comedian in the pulpit telling amusing anecdotes, and the coffin to slide into the incinerator to the sound of Marlene Dietrich. If the booze up can begin right away, so much the better, and with a bit of luck the crematorium will never be gloomy again. Anyone mourning should be denounced as the representative of a credit card company and thrown out on their ear. Snowballs if in season (tomatoes if not) can be thrown at anyone uttering even worthy cliches like "the struggle goes on" and should anyone be prepared to dodge pieces of concrete confrontation.— Albert Meltzer
If I have miscalculated, as a worthy clerical friend assures me I have, and there really is a God, I'd like to feel if he's got any sense of humor or feeling for humanity there's nobody he would sooner have in heaven than people like me, and if he hasn't, who wants in?
You are a prize," Marlene said. "You really are a prize. Have you spent your whole life learning how to please women?"— Robert Anton Wilson
"It's my life study," Starhawk said. "Everything else is just a hobby.
I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.— Marlene Dietrich
Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.— Marlene Dietrich
I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.— Charlize Theron
There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex is only about sex in snakes, or sex in egg-laying reptiles. Although a biologist's job in part is to interpret what organisms do in a broader context, that context does not, and should not, need to include a lesson for human beings. This is true regardless of whether the lesson is something we would like to teach, which means that using animals as vehicles for nonsexist thinking is just as out of bounds as using them to keep women barefoot and pregnant.— Marlene Zuk
E all have to do things in this life that we don't like..— Marlene Van Niekerk
To lose your prejudices you must travel.— Marlene Dietrich
A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.— Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.— Jerry Saltz
Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.— Marlene Dietrich
Hey, have you guys seen Rachel?"— Maya Banks
"I'm looking at her," Sam said.
Ethan stepped out, and relief settled over his face. He stopped beside Garret and glanced between Rachel and Sean and then at the others.
"You okay?" he asked.
She smiled, not wanting him to worry. "I'm fine. I stepped out for some fresh air not realizing this was a time-honored tradition of escaping Marlene's get-togethers."
Ethan relaxed and stuck his thumbs in his belt loops. "Yeah, it's become something that rivals war games. He who survives the longest without being hauled back in by Mom wins.
It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.— Marlene Dietrich
Everything okay, sweet pea?" Garret asked as he walked over.— Maya Banks
"Yep. Just talking to Sean and getting some fresh air."
Garret shoved his hands into his pockets. "You mean you're hiding out here with this pussy who's here for the same reason."
Sean grunted. "Yeah, the exact same reason you've run outside like a damn girl."
Garret grinned. "Too many damned people. Ma eats that shit up, but I swear it makes the rest of us crazy."
"So at what point is she going to figure out we've fled the premises?" Rachel asked. The last thing she wanted was to hurt Marlene's feelings.
"Not to worry. Mom is well used to having to round us up. She usually gives us ten minutes or so to get the crazed look from our eyes, and then she'll come out all sweet-like but with a glint in her eyes you know better than to ignore."
"And at that point, she drags us back inside by our ears," Sean finished.
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.— Marlene Dietrich
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.— Marlene Dietrich
When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.— Marlene Dumas
Life is not about how long you live or how much you experience. Life is about how you choose to live it and what you experience.— Marlene Hansen
When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.— Marlene Dietrich
T-shirt that read I'M A GLEEK.— Marlene Perez
Leaders seem to have a high tolerance for ambiguity. Recognizing that the brain does not work in a completely linear fashion, leaders demonstrate a comfort with the chaos of exploding ideas, many of them seemingly unrelated to the stimulus that caused them.— Marlene Caroselli
True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.— Marlene Caroselli
Nature is subtle and complex.— Marlene Van Niekerk
Current research is showing that true leaders enjoy using their power and are comfortable with it - so comfortable, in fact, that they don't mind sharing that control when it is appropriate to do so.— Marlene Caroselli
There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.— Marlene Dumas
I pushed away my dessert, suddenly no longer hungry. Resentment had a way of filling up your stomach.— Marlene Perez
No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.— Marlene Dumas
Sex is much better with a woman,— Marlene Dietrich
but then one can't live with a woman
Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.— Marlene Dietrich
After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given up all hope, the reward.— Marlene Van Niekerk
What is the black shadow? It's the running inner dialogue we have with ourselves all day long about our fears of being inferior as black people. It is our internalization of the white man's lie that blacks are inferior to whites— Marlene F. Watson
the very lie that was the foundation of our ancestors' enslavement. The black shadow is more than simply internalized racism; it's also our complex feelings of fear and despair about being black, and consequently our longing to be less black.
It is better being the victim then the victimizer.— Marlene Thornton
Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.— Marlene Dietrich
I was in 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' and I got to do a song for the soundtrack.— Christopher Abbott
[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me.— Marlene Dietrich
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.— Barry Humphries
Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who report histories of childhood trauma characteristically describe themes of ongoing inner struggle regarding their identity; of inner battles for survival; or other images of anger, conflict, and violence. P13— Marlene Steinberg
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.— Marlene Dietrich
Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.— Marlene Van Niekerk
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.— Marlene Dietrich
She doesn't seem to notice me. She focuses on Uriah. "I'm just glad I didn't die while under the simulation," she says weakly. "You're not gonna die now," he says. "Don't be stupid," she says. "Uri, listen. I loved her too. I did." "You loved who?" he says, his voice breaking. "Marlene," says Lynn. "Yeah, we all loved Marlene," he says. "No, that's not what I mean." She shakes her head. She closes her eyes. Still, it takes a few minutes before her hand goes limp in mine. I guide it across her stomach, and then take her other hand from Uriah and do the same to it. He wipes his eyes— Veronica Roth
I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad's from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting person to play.— Kirsten Dunst
A new kind of award has been added— Marlene Dietrich
the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.
[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.— Marlene Dietrich
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Marriage is holy and it's private.— Marlene Van Niekerk
How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.— Marlene Dietrich
Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.— Marlene Dumas
I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing ...— Sandra Bernhard
I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.— Veronica Roth
Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.— Marlene Dietrich
Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.— Edith Head
If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.— Marlene Dietrich
I think it would be easier to fight in a dress," says Marlene, tapping her chin. "It would give your legs freer movement. And who really cares if you flash people your underwear, as long as you're kicking the crap out of them?"— Veronica Roth
Lynn goes silent, like she recognizes that as a spark of brilliance but can't bring herself to admit it.
"What's this about flashing underwear?" says Uriah, sidestepping a bunk. "Whatever it is, I'm in.
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.— Marlene Dietrich
I want to see her naked, " Mengele said pointing to Marlene. She cried and shock. My mother flung her body in front of Marlene's and said, "You can't have her. I love her, my daughter." My father said, "Take the younger one. She's smarter, " as he pushed me over forward.— Wendy Hoffman
Marlene cried because father said I was smarter even though he was just trying to manipulate Mengele. The doctor's chest grew large.
I felt it would push me out of my comfort zone and develop my skills. And that's what it's all about - do something new and learn something from it.— Marlene Mienie
would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It's infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn't too great." "Oh," says Uriah. Lynn picks up her fork and starts eating again. "I heard the Candor made ice cream," says Marlene, twisting her head around to see the lunch line. "You know, as a kind of 'it sucks we got attacked, but at least there are desserts' thing.— Veronica Roth
He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?"— Whit Masterson
-- Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch Of Evil, originally written by Whit Masterson as Badge Of Evil. One of the best closing sequences you'll see in classical Hollywood
He picked up the biscuit box and said, "Come on, Marlene. Back into hiding in case somebody comes looking for you, although only God knows why anybody would."— Jennifer Crusie
"Marlene?" Nell said.
"I'm not calling anything SugarPie," Riley said. "That's obscene.
Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age,— Marlene Dietrich
but you can't fool a flight of stairs
Wait a second," Four says. I turn toward him, wondering which version of Four I'll see now-the one who scolds me, or the one who climbs Ferris wheels with me. He smiles a little, but the smile doesn't spread to his eyes, which look less tense and worried.— Veronica Roth
"You belong here, you know that?" he says. "You belong with us. It'll be over soon, so just hold on, okay?"
He scratches behind his ear and looks away, like he's embarrassed by what he said.
I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care.
I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
I stare up at him, and he stares down at me. For a long moment, we stay that way. Then I pull my hand away and run after Uriah and Lynn and Marlene. Maybe now he thinks I'm stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it.
In the beginning Dave and Marlene's relationship had been fantastic. The sex was amazing. There were other good things too of course, but Dave couldn't always remember exactly what they were. But the sex had been off the scale.— Jackson Radcliffe
The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.— Marlene Dumas
The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.— Marlene Caroselli
Some theorists believe that polyphasic functioning can, over time, affect a person's sense of identity by making it harder to distinguish central concerns from peripheral ones. When life is made up of decisions, decisions, decisions, all requiring attention at the same time, where to eat lunch on a particular day may seem as important a question as, Do I believe in God? We can get to a point where the dailiness of life matters as much as the core elements of identity: one's fundamental beliefs, moral convictions, or close relationships.— Marlene Steinberg
One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.— Madonna Ciccone
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.— Marlene Dietrich
Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.— Marlene Dumas
I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.— Ellen Greene
