Doris Roberts quote: "I have four other ones at home and this morning, I said, 'Girls, move over. I'm coming home with another one.' ... Everybody Loves Raymond."

This is the icing on the cake. Nine wonderful years on Everybody Loves Raymond , and to finish it of...
DORIS ROBERTS

Wow, this is the icing on the cake.
DORIS ROBERTS

That's a social barrier I don't think we're ready to cross. It's two different worlds. Believe me, I...
DORIS ROBERTS

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is...
DORIS ROBERTS

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, b...
DORIS ROBERTS

There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any othe...
DORIS ROBERTS

I'm from New York. I have a big mouth, and I hope we raise lots of money tonight and, more than that...
DORIS ROBERTS

I'm up against these crazy gorgeous women and look who got (the prize). This is another goodie for m...
DORIS ROBERTS

There is such ageism in our country. Just because you're over 40 doesn't mean you're still not hot o...
DORIS ROBERTS

Just because you're over 40 doesn't mean you're not hot, or talented, ... Look who won!
DORIS ROBERTS

I have four other ones at home and this morning, I said, 'Girls, move over. I'm coming home with ano...
DORIS ROBERTS

Nine wonderful years on Everybody Loves Raymond and to finish it off with this is wonderful.
DORIS ROBERTS

When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up....
DORIS ROBERTS

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.
DORIS ROBERTS

My awards are lovely. I love to show them off.
DORIS ROBERTS

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? ...
DORIS ROBERTS

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing t...
DORIS ROBERTS

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.
DORIS ROBERTS

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that w...
DORIS ROBERTS

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitl...
DORIS ROBERTS

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down...
DORIS ROBERTS

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way ...
DORIS ROBERTS

The minute you're born, you're getting older.
DORIS ROBERTS

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and pea...
DORIS LESSING

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eigh...
DORIS LESSING

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our...
DORIS LESSING

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Sout...
DORIS LESSING

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And...
DORIS LESSING

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconcei...
DORIS LESSING

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I ha...
DORIS LESSING

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being give...
DORIS LESSING

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is...
DORIS LESSING

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty ...
DORIS LESSING

Over the plains of Ethiopia the sun rose as I had not seen it in seven years. A big, cool, empty sky...
DORIS LESSING

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you ...
DORIS LESSING

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is someth...
DORIS LESSING

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
DORIS LESSING

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
DORIS LESSING

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love wh...
DORIS LESSING

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lov...
DORIS DAY

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abst...
DORIS LESSING

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a ne...
DORIS LESSING

Laughter is by definition healthy.
DORIS LESSING

Better Counsel comes overnight.
DORIS LESSING

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!
DORIS DAY

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than ste...
DORIS LESSING

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
DORIS LESSING

What is a hero without love for mankind.
DORIS LESSING

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
DORIS LESSING

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
DORIS LESSING

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
DORIS LESSING

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped....
DORIS LESSING

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
DORIS LESSING

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtl...
DORIS LESSING

Pearls mean tears.
DORIS LESSING

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty...
DORIS LESSING

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
DORIS MORTMAN

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman.
DORIS MORTMAN

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING

In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
DORIS LESSING

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in ...
DORIS LESSING

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. You...
DORIS LESSING

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
DORIS LESSING

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
DORIS EGAN

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious pe...
DORIS EGAN

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.
DORIS DAY

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housew...
DORIS DAY

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
DORIS DAY

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.
DORIS DAY

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools...
DORIS LESSING

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
DORIS LESSING

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given...
DORIS LESSING

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
DORIS LESSING

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song...
DORIS DAY

This is because Marxism looks at things as a whole and in relation to each other—or tries to, but ...
DORIS LESSING

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
DORIS DAY

The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Becaus...
DORIS LESSING

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal...
DORIS DAY

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and...
DORIS DAY

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
DORIS DAY

Literature is analysis after the event.
DORIS LESSING

Small things amuse small minds.
DORIS LESSING

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history canno...
DORIS LESSING

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they...
DORIS LESSING

People will be able to actually walk where the villagers walked and explore the mound.
DORIS ANDERSON

If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them.
DORIS ANDERSON

One of the big hurdles to overcome is kids attitude toward science. Some kids think science is borin...
DORIS ANDERSON

It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired.
DORIS ANDERSON

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
DORIS DAY

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to s...
DORIS LESSING

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty y...
DORIS LESSING

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
DORIS DAY

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic...
DORIS LESSING

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself
DORIS LESSING

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest...
DORIS LESSING

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need...
DORIS LESSING

My father was in the First World War.
DORIS LESSING

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped....
DORIS LESSING

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imaginat...
DORIS LESSING

It is occasionally possible to charge Hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods th...
DORIS FLEESON

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any o...
DORIS HUMPHREY

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Am...
DORIS LESSING

The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thank...
DORIS CHRISTOPHER

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement...
DORIS HUMPHREY

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing
DORIS LESSING

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
DORIS DAY

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
DORIS LESSING

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at ...
DORIS LESSING

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that lonelines...
DORIS LESSING

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly less stupid than we are to accept truths tha...
DORIS LESSING

You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more s...
DORIS LESSING

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
DORIS DAY

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smoo...
DORIS LESSING

That is not an option I'm prepared to entertain, ... There is no place for an arbitration panel.
DORIS MEISSNER

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.
DORIS LILLY

Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
DORIS LILLY

He demolished people . . . . You either loved him or you hated him, but there was no one remotely li...
DORIS LILLY

Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time ...
DORIS LILLY

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.
DORIS LILLY

We were in San Francisco for a long weekend. And we turned on the TV to check the weather and the...
DORIS DAY

It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them a...
DORIS DAY

It was meant for her last film.
DORIS DAY

DAY: "I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the fin...
DORIS DAY

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
DORIS LESSING

The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.
DORIS DUKE

I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky...
DORIS DAY

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
DORIS DAY

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
DORIS DAY

Any girl can look glamorous .... just stand there and look stupid.
DORIS DAY

We were in San Francisco for a long weekend. And we turned on the TV to check the weather — and th...
DORIS DAY

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a ...
DORIS LESSING

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the...
DORIS LESSING

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fanta...
DORIS LESSING

Time Bites: Views and Reviews
DORIS LESSING

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
DORIS LESSING

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
DORIS LESSING

Laughter is by definition healthy
DORIS LESSING

What matters most is that we learn from living
DORIS LESSING

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't t...
DORIS LESSING

We had a group picture taken with him and he also did some autographs and George signed an 'Ocean's ...
DORIS PINTER

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
DORIS LESSING

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted com...
DORIS DAY

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble...
DORIS LESSING

The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes show...
DORIS LESSING

Where others might have faltered, you rose to the occasion, ... This is not just my opinion, which I...
DORIS MEISSNER

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A wom...
DORIS DAY

She spoke on various sides of the issue, ... She spoke about how deeply she cared for the child, how...
DORIS MEISSNER

The real objective here is to deter that kind of migration, ... The best way to deter is to be ready...
DORIS MEISSNER

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily col...
DORIS LESSING

فكري بالطريقة الخاطئة ولكن من فضلك ، فكري في نفسك في كل ...
DORIS LESSING

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publisher...
DORIS LESSING

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, ex...
DORIS LESSING

أنا خطر؟ هذا الشيء الصغير الذي يسهل كسره الذي هو أنا، ا�...
DORIS LESSING

If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
DORIS DAY

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a boo...
DORIS LESSING

A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel m...
DORIS LESSING

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all bec...
DORIS LESSING

I am always amazed, in myself and in other women, at the strength of our need to bolster men up. Thi...
DORIS LESSING

He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intell...
DORIS LESSING

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a ...
DORIS LESSING

I have you for being normal, I hate you for it. You’re a normal human being. What right have you t...
DORIS LESSING

...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but the...
DORIS LESSING

I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flun...
DORIS LESSING

I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
DORIS LESSING

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
DORIS LESSING

Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another qui...
DORIS LESSING

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when yo...
DORIS LESSING

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integ...
DORIS LESSING

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature in...
DORIS LESSING

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say w...
DORIS LESSING

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
DORIS LESSING

I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the ...
DORIS LESSING

I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly...
DORIS LESSING

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want...
DORIS LESSING

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths ...
DORIS LESSING

Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wantin...
DORIS LESSING

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
DORIS LESSING

For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a w...
DORIS LESSING

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits ...
DORIS LESSING

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people...
DORIS LESSING

Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish th...
DORIS LESSING

I asked a member of the crew if I could have the sheets that Jon and George laid on autographed and ...
DORIS PINTER

The worse thing I could have done is to live with a man and not be married. That was the worse thing...
DORIS PAYNE

It's not the fun it used to be. I'm sure I won't be there next year.
DORIS NORTHAM

I told everybody all year long that we've got a good team. To me, they just seem so aggressive.
DORIS NORTHAM

When I was a kid, you know, you went to church and you went to ball games. And that was your enterta...
DORIS NORTHAM

It was my firm conviction, then and now, that we did the right thing on April 22, and we are doing i...
DORIS MEISSNER

That told us we had to be prepared for anything.
DORIS MEISSNER

found the family functioning very well as a family.
DORIS MEISSNER

They need more space and they need more privacy.
DORIS MEISSNER

held in virtual slavery.
DORIS MEISSNER

The arguments for better immigration enforcement and controls are perfectly legitimate, and obviousl...
DORIS MEISSNER

have basically used the legal migration system to their advantage.
DORIS MEISSNER

The longer we do it, the bigger it grows.
DORIS MARSHALL

Our aids are very committed to serving their customers. Money may be a concern but they continue to ...
DORIS MARSHALL

Our budget is really tight but we will continue to explore (increasing reimbursement), but I don't k...
DORIS MARSHALL

I live in a neighborhood, but all the houses are different. There are a lot of different sizes and d...
DORIS LEADBETTER

I think Great Falls is an anomaly because there are so many different types of houses. It's not like...
DORIS LEADBETTER

I have four other ones at home and this morning, I said, 'Girls, move over. I'm coming home with another one.' ... Everybody Loves Raymond.

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I have four other ones at home and this morning, I said, 'Girls, move over. I'm coming home with another one.' ... Everybody Loves Raymond.

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