Diana Ross quote: "Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon."

It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really ...
DIANA ROSS

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out th...
DIANA ROSS

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do...
DIANA ROSS

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things....
DIANA ROSS

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
DIANA ROSS

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to ge...
DIANA ROSS

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
DIANA ROSS

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
DIANA ROSS

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
DIANA ROSS

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independen...
DIANA ROSS

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Hol...
DIANA ROSS

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. Th...
DIANA ROSS

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
DIANA ROSS

Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about m...
DIANA ROSS

Hair has always been important.
DIANA ROSS

Just because I have my standards, they think I'm a bitch
DIANA ROSS

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like ...
DIANA ROSS

People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I ...
DIANA ROSS

I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I d...
DIANA ROSS

I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really...
DIANA ROSS

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and fo...
DIANA ROSS

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
DIANA ROSS

You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that's left behind!
DIANA ROSS

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independen...
DIANA ROSS

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led m...
DIANA ROSS

Live, with Regis & Kathie Lee.
DIANA ROSS

I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
DIANA ROSS

I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because ...
DIANA ROSS

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
DIANA ROSS

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were neve...
DIANA ROSS

I can be a better me than anyone can.
DIANA ROSS

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things....
DIANA ROSS

I don't get fat, I get skinny.
DIANA ROSS

I think the album really is about -- it's a reflection of where I am and (where) I've been for the l...
DIANA ROSS

He is in a stable condition, which is an indication that he is recovering well.
DIANA ROSS

Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
DIANA VREELAND

I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to giv...
DIANA GABALDON

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
DIANA KRALL

Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.
DIANA GABALDON

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
DIANA VREELAND

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period...
PRINCESS DIANA

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett...
PRINCESS DIANA

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa...
PRINCESS DIANA

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
PRINCESS DIANA

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feel...
PRINCESS DIANA

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves...
PRINCESS DIANA

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
PRINCESS DIANA

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
PRINCESS DIANA

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and ...
PRINCESS DIANA

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
PRINCESS DIANA

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
PRINCESS DIANA

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven...
PRINCESS DIANA

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
PRINCESS DIANA

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
PRINCESS DIANA

Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.
DIANA GABALDON

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary
DIANA GABALDON

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I&#...
DIANA KRALL

'Game of Thrones' is wonderful. My theory is they employ all these British actors because, o...
DIANA RIGG

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who ...
DIANA NYAD

I was very, very young, living in India. I'd been put to bed in the afternoon, and I had that lo...
DIANA RIGG

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
DIANA VREELAND

The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs ...
DIANA NYAD

I've had no fewer than three young women on separate occasions come up to me at book signings an...
DIANA GALBADON

I've had no fewer than three young women on separate occasions come up to me at book signings an...
DIANA GABALDON

You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable.
LADY DIANA

I have never seen a script that hasn't gone through at least eight different iterations before t...
DIANA GABALDON

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of ...
DIANA RANKIN

Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-le...
DIANA GABALDON

Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after...
DIANA GABALDON

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
DIANA GABALDON

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean so...
DIANA GABALDON

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
DIANA SCHARF

I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than...
DIANA GABALDON

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as lon...
DIANA NYAD

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
DIANA BLACK

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of ...
DIANA RANKIN

There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing ...
DIANA NYAD

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
PRINCESS DIANA

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
PRINCESS DIANA

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like ...
PRINCESS DIANA

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a ...
PRINCESS DIANA

I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventur...
DIANA RIGG

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
PRINCESS DIANA

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
PRINCESS DIANA

Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me...
DIANA LOPEZ

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have ...
DIANA LOPEZ

You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with M...
DIANA LOPEZ

I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my bro...
DIANA LOPEZ

Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shop...
DIANA LOPEZ

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and f...
DIANA LOPEZ

I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to serve President Obama and the country and proud of the p...
DIANA FARRELL

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this cou...
PRINCESS DIANA

There have been setbacks, illnesses and other obstacles, so inevitably I've had disappointments....
DIANA QUICK

Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an e...
DIANA GABALDON

Only do what your heart tells you.
PRINCESS DIANA

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one da...
PRINCESS DIANA

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Ja...
DIANA GABALDON

Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly ho...
DIANA GABALDON

Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals,...
DIANA DEGETTE

We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /televisio...
DIANA GABALDON

Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.
DIANA GABALDON

All these old images of me floating across the screen, the terrible chasm of what you were and what ...
DIANA RIGG

It would be nice if they didn't make me get up at 5 A.M. for a 12-hour day. My caravan is never ...
DIANA RIGG

Three of the principal cast members of 'Outlander' have come out publically for 'Yes'...
DIANA GABALDON

I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacr...
DIANA LOPEZ

Every time I'd read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomica...
DIANA GABALDON

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the az...
DIANA NYAD

I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not lo...
DIANA RIGG

From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged...
DIANA GABALDON

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
DIANA VREELAND

I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Laur...
DIANA QUICK

You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, a...
DIANA RIGG

We depend on the critics to give us a glimpse of what happened. Bernard Shaw championed Ibsen, who g...
DIANA RIGG

My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best...
DIANA LOPEZ

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because ...
DIANA KRALL

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
DIANA ROBINSON

It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given t...
DIANA GABALDON

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that ...
DIANA LOPEZ

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how th...
DIANA KRALL

Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.
DIANA GABALDON

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
DIANA VREELAND

There are lines of geomagnetic force running through the Earth's crust, and most of the time, th...
DIANA GABALDON

A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an esca...
DIANA GALBADON

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me ...
DIANA RIGG

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to ...
PRINCESS DIANA

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's d...
PRINCESS DIANA

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not p...
DIANA RIGG

I walked across Tuscany from Siena to Rome, which was a lovely way to see the landscape. It was sunn...
DIANA QUICK

Sleep is death without the consequence.
DIANA QUINN

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.
DIANA COOPER

It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's ha...
DIANA AVIV

It's extremely important for charitable organizations to make sure lawmakers have all the facts befo...
DIANA AVIV

In the First Amendment, people have the right to petition the government. That is a constitutional r...
DIANA AVIV

With government funding being cut back, charities are being hard-pressed to turn away money that's l...
DIANA AVIV

These recommendations are another part of the charitable sector?s commitment to come together and en...
DIANA AVIV

Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating whe...
DIANA AVIV

It is a challenge to place a dollar value on the important work volunteers do for millions of charit...
DIANA AVIV

With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations d...
DIANA AVIV

If we don't knock it back now it's just going to get worse and worse.
DIANA ANDREWS

We'll have a short presentation. We just encourage anybody who is interested in the lake to attend.
DIANA ANDREWS

A little bit of vegetation is good but too much is not.
DIANA ANDREWS

I'm pretty hopeful that the public will be favorable to it this time because we have had some commen...
DIANA ANDREWS

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?
DIANA NYAD

If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally d...
DIANA GABALDON

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at th...
DIANA KRALL

I buy most of my plants from nurseries outside London these days, but there is a man who mysteriousl...
DIANA QUICK

Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the lif...
DIANA QUICK

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one da...
DIANA SPENCER

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.
DIANA VREELAND

It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.
DIANA NYAD

If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.
PRINCESS DIANA

I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning the cruel looki...
DIANA COOPER

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.
DIANA COOPER

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.
DIANA COOPER

I feel in my heart I am supposed to be here right now. We have here an 8-year-old cocker spaniel tha...
DIANA COOPER

I feel in my heart I am supposed to be here right now, ... We have here an 8-year-old cocker spaniel...
DIANA COOPER

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertigi...
DIANA COOPER

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's be...
DIANA NYAD

If it were said that I didn't fulfil my potential as a mother and wife, I'd be heartbroken. ...
DIANA RIGG

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that ...
DIANA GABALDON

Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and ...
DIANA RIGG

I love 'Mastermind'. It's touching that people spend so much time learning. I do have qu...
DIANA RIGG

All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing...
DIANA GABALDON

I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda...
DIANA RIGG

I was nourished and nurtured at Stratford as a very young actress. They guided me and forgave me!
DIANA RIGG

In actual fact, I doubled 'Twelfth Night' and 'The Avengers'. I was going backwards ...
DIANA RIGG

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and f...
DIANA GABALDON

I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see thin...
DIANA GALBADON

I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to a...
DIANA QUICK

I want to knock her block off.
PRINCESS DIANA

We try to hold them where we have chapters, and we haven't had a chapter in Vancouver in years.
DIANA STADDEN

The greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help.
DIANA GABALDON

And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and...
DIANA GABALDON

All the names I’ve called you through the years—my chick, my pumpkin, precious dove, darling, sw...
DIANA GABALDON

The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
DIANA GABALDON

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
PRINCESS DIANA

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
PRINCESS DIANA

With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future genera...
DIANA DEGETTE

Orkney has the kind of landscape that sort of lends itself to a relationship with the people. I thin...
DIANA GABALDON

James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
DIANA GABALDON

So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?"
"All the time," she s...
DIANA GABALDON

' his wife recalled. ''I used to say, 'Charlie's asleep.' He was always so calm.
DIANA WILLIAMS

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug : Heave...
PRINCESS DIANA

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
PRINCESS DIANA

If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it&...
DIANA GABALDON

No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind ...
DIANA GABALDON

I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, t...
DIANA GABALDON

You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.
DIANA GABALDON

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.
DIANA GABALDON

Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault,...
DIANA GABALDON

There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna g...
DIANA GABALDON

Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.
DIANA GABALDON

I had one last try.
"Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before an...
DIANA GABALDON

We're looking at swells in the 15- to 19-foot range Saturday morning, coinciding with a high tide at...
DIANA HENDERSON

The key with Merrill is they're not as dependent on some of the venture capital private equity gains...
DIANA YATES

I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple of t...
DIANA GABALDON

It was exhilarating. If you were talented, it was easy to rise through the ranks if you knew what yo...
DIANA PETERS

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