Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and...
JUDITH GUEST Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving ven...
JUDITH GUEST For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.
JUDITH GUEST He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a h...
JUDITH GUEST To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief ...
JUDITH GUEST People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of saf...
JUDITH GUEST He hangs on now, pressing his hand lightly against the wall, below the window, waiting for the famil...
JUDITH GUEST Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
JUDITH GUEST People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
JUDITH GUEST To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to posses a guiding principle
JUDITH GUEST ...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling...
JUDITH GUEST Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far ...
JUDITH GUEST People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
JUDITH GUEST Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they'...
JUDITH GUEST . . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, ne...
JUDITH GUEST I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... a...
VAL GUEST I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
EDGAR GUEST I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
EDGAR GUEST If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waite...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST It's infrequent that that happens - great performances and magical cinematography and great dire...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deep...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I read kind of serious books about fairly arcane subjects.
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made ...
VAL GUEST I would rather see a serman than hear one any day.
EDDIE GUEST I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Majo...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.
CHRISTOPHER GUEST At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be w...
EDGAR GUEST I get asked, 'Who would you really like to work with?' I'm already working with them. Sm...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in thei...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that...
VAL GUEST What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight m...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST There have been a dozen plans across the years. None of them were implemented because the agencies l...
DAVID GUEST The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's no...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST No, I didn’t wait for you
or sleep much at all
or raise one hope like a rag to wipe my l...
PAUL GUEST If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy mi...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clari...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That maybe it couldn't but he ...
EDGAR GUEST It matters not what goal you seek - Its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week - ...
EDGAR GUEST We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST It's not about one person. That's human behavior, and it's what I like to watch. I like to sit in th...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST We populate the stories with people who share certain traits. Invariably, someone will say, "I know ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I have a half Lab and half golden retriever named Henry and then the other one, Lucy, is half Akita ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST [When I spoke to Jane Lynch at the premiere of the R rated sex comedy,] The 40 Year Old Virgin, ... ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I don't work with high-concept things that start with a premise, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye
EDGAR GUEST It matters not what goal you seek - Its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week - T...
EDGAR GUEST That's kind of been our quarter. We wanted to come out and make a statement. We jumped on them and n...
BRIAN GUEST Given where we were just a couple of years ago, playing for a district championship is just amazing.
BRIAN GUEST Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous th...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I would overhear these conversations of people who show purebred dogs. They spoke about them as if t...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are v...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.
CHRISTOPHER GUEST Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.
CHRISTOPHER GUEST Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it wa...
VAL GUEST All these movies are observational comedies. I see somebody, maybe a dry cleaner, and notice how the...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero.
CHRISTOPHER GUEST It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.
CHRISTOPHER GUEST Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 a...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST South Side fans are more stoic. They just suck it up. They don't cry and whine and blame curses. We'...
EILEEN GUEST My daughter recommended Chris O'Dowd to me after seeing him in 'Bridesmaids,' so I watch...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST We heard about people who went backstage at dog shows with scissors and cut parts of a poodle's ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST In 'Waiting for Guffman,' the character I played, the Corky character, he's very serious...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST It is destroying the south end of the lake.
DAVID GUEST It is a really important deal for conservation. It ought to go through.
DAVID GUEST They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST 'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't hav...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST 'Waiting For Guffman' was different right away from 'Spinal Tap,' because we didn...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is,...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's s...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to b...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST The most important thing about my life is this integrity, and you can't lie to yourself.
CHRISTOPHER GUEST People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do a...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.
CHRISTOPHER GUEST If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST The last time I raced in Canberra was in 1997 and I finished second and helped clinch the manufactur...
MICHAEL GUEST At all of the events in Australia I can't think of one stage that is more daunting than the Mineshaf...
MICHAEL GUEST I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
C. Z. GUEST The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
C. Z. GUEST What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they ha...
C. Z. GUEST All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
C. Z. GUEST I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
C. Z. GUEST Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That maybe it couldn't,...
EDGAR A. GUEST Courage must come from the soul within,
The man must furnish the will to win.
So figure it ou...
EDGAR A. GUEST You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who ...
EDGAR A. GUEST I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell t...
EDGAR A. GUEST I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
C. Z. GUEST I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been...
EDGAR A. GUEST The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
EDGAR A. GUEST You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a d...
EDGAR A. GUEST With a lift of his chin, and a bit of a grin/ Without any doubting or "quit it,"/ He started to sing...
EDGAR A. GUEST It Couldn't Be DoneSomebody said that it couldn't be done,But he with a chuckle repliedThat "maybe i...
EDGAR A. GUEST Somebody scoffed, "Oh, you'll never to that --/ At least no one ever has done it";/ But he took off ...
EDGAR A. GUEST But here in the struggle for fame and pelf / I want to be able to like myself. / I don't want to loo...
EDGAR A. GUEST I take the family shopping round / The markets of the world.
EDGAR A. GUEST Often we wonder in our grief what is gained by our belief? Although night, and morning we pray, stil...
EDGAR A. GUEST There is an education of the mind / Which all require and parents only start. / But there is trainin...
EDGAR A. GUEST Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't keep them.
ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST Often we wonder in our grief what is gained by our belief? Although night, and morning we pray, stil...
EDGAR A. GUEST It Couldn't Be Done

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle repli...
EDGAR A. GUEST Father!
My father knows the proper way
The nation should be run;
He tells us childr...
EDGAR A. GUEST The Gentle Gardener

I'd like to leave but daffodils to mark my little way,
To leave ...
EDGAR A. GUEST I used to think Romeo and Juliet was the greatest love story ever written. But now that I’m middle...
J. CONRAD GUEST I watched them tearing a building down,
A gang of men in a busy town.
With a ho-heave-ho a...
EDGAR A. GUEST Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentab...
JUDITH BUTLER I believe God has a path for me. He's always had a path for me, and I've always been in the ...
JUDITH JAMISON I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don'...
JUDITH BUTLER We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or somethi...
JUDITH BUTLER A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We c...
JUDITH BUTLER You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless yo...
JUDITH KRANTZ Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate represent...
JUDITH BUTLER Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a ...
JUDITH VIORST Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few...
JUDITH ROSSNER But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned w...
JUDITH VIORST The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It'...
JUDITH JAMISON Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. ...
JUDITH BUTLER 'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a differe...
JUDITH MARTIN There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
JUDITH ANDERSON Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I...
JUDITH ROSSNER Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers m...
JUDITH MARTIN Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a h...
JUDITH VIORST A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?"

-Royce Westmorelan...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Here is the same clock that walked quietly
Through those enormous years I half recall,
When b...
JUDITH WRIGHT If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universit...
JUDITH MARTIN It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It ...
JUDITH ROSSNER One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with y...
JUDITH VIORST One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls ...
JUDITH VIORST You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and th...
JUDITH VIORST Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble ...
JUDITH VIORST There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food...
JUDITH MARTIN An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to
keep.
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is co...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat...
JUDITH VIORST There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, someth...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, pe...
JUDITH THURMAN You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!"
"And you, my dear," Royce ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT It's true love because if he said quit drinking martinis but I kept on drinking them and the next mo...
JUDITH VIORST Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.
JUDITH STERN Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as n...
JUDITH VIORST There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.
JUDITH ANDERSON Dance is about never-ending aspiration.
JUDITH JAMISON Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them...
JUDITH OLNEY I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.
JUDITH KRANTZ We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to partici...
JUDITH MARTIN Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you."
JUDITH VIORST Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
JUDITH MARTIN If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach ...
JUDITH HAYES We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it?...
JUDITH JAMISON Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
JUDITH VIORST Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then ...
JUDITH VIORST Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knoc...
JUDITH VIORST Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation...
JUDITH MARTIN We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate i...
JUDITH MARTIN A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.
JUDITH BROCKLEHURST I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance ...
JUDITH BUTLER We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive ...
JUDITH WRIGHT You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.
JUDITH LIGHT Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socia...
JUDITH WRIGHT Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, maki...
JUDITH VIORST Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
JUDITH BUTLER When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting ...
JUDITH BUTLER It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom a...
JUDITH BUTLER There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constitut...
JUDITH BUTLER Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, reveal...
JUDITH KRANTZ I really love being finance director.
JUDITH MCKENNA I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to ...
JUDITH HILL A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues...
JUDITH RODIN As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving y...
JUDITH JAMISON Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock...
JUDITH VIORST I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class...
JUDITH JAMISON Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how ...
JUDITH JAMISON Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any othe...
JUDITH LIGHT The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying ...
JUDITH LIGHT I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety fr...
JUDITH BUTLER One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or so...
JUDITH MARTIN Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery
JUDITH MCNAUGHT To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative me...
JUDITH BUTLER When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can ful...
JUDITH WRIGHT The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawn...
JUDITH BUTLER Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expres...
JUDITH WRIGHT I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware ...
JUDITH WRIGHT My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. ...
JUDITH VIORST When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that d...
JUDITH BUTLER Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then e...
JUDITH VIORST Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled...
JUDITH VIORST Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the k...
JUDITH VIORST I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you'...
JUDITH VIORST I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not...
JUDITH JAMISON I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.
JUDITH JAMISON My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on...
JUDITH VIORST