Quotations About / On: GIRL

  • 41.
    And in their fairy tales
    The warty giant and witch
    Get sealed in doorless jails
    And the match-girl strikes it rich.
    (Anthony Hecht (b. 1923), U.S. poet. It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It (l. 5-8). . . Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, The, 1945-1980. D. J. Enright, comp. (1980) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 42.
    The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers
    Hooked in the stones of the wall,
    (Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. Cassandra (l. 1-2). . . Little Treasury of American Poetry, A. Oscar Williams, ed. (1948) Charles Scribner's Sons.)
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  • 43.
    If I were tickled by the rub of love,
    A rooking girl who stole me for her side ...
    (Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "If I were tickled by the rub of love.")
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  • 44.
    Killers, huh? I'd trade the pair of you for a good Camp Fire Girl.
    (Daniel Taradash (b. 1913), U.S. screenwriter. Sergeant Warden (Burt Lancaster), From Here To Eternity, after preventing a fight between Maggio (Frank Sinatra) and Fatso (Ernest Borgnine) (1953).)
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  • 45.
    Little Boy
    Full of joy;
    Little Girl,
    Sweet and small;
    (William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. From Songs of Innocence. Spring (l. 10-13). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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  • 46.
    No doubt you were extremely beautiful as a young girl, but your youth could never compete with your age now.
    (Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), British actor, screenwriter, director, and Orson Welles. Monsieur Henri Verdoux (Charles Chaplin), Monsieur Verdoux, said to Marie Grosnay (Isobel Elsom) as he tries to seduce her (1947).)
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  • 47.
    Surely spring will allow
    a girl without a stitch on
    to turn softly in her sunlight
    and not be afraid of her bed.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "It Is a Spring Afternoon.")
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  • 48.
    There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
    (Joan Rivers (b. 1935), U.S. comedienne. Quoted in Los Angeles Times (May 10, 1974).)
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  • 49.
    Debussy—A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.
    (H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880-1956), U.S. journalist, critic. Originally published in the Smart Set (May 1912). The Vintage Mencken, ch. 26, p. 141, ed. Alistair Cooke, Vintage (1956).)
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  • 50.
    In America, every female under fifty calls herself a "girl."
    (H.E. Bates, British screenwriter, and David Lean. Jane Hudson (Katherine Hepburn), Summertime.)
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