There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class
JUDITH S. MARIN A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful
JUDITH S. MARIN Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd ...
JUDITH S. MARIN The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of...
JUDITH S. MARIN If you can't be kind, at least be vague
JUDITH S. MARIN What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman ...
JUDITH S. MARIN It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
JUDITH S. MARIN We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to particip...
JUDITH S. MARIN Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace
JUDITH S. MARIN Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account
JUDITH S. MARIN There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class
JUDITH S. MARIN I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre ...
CHEECH MARIN My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind...
CHEECH MARIN My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with ...
CHEECH MARIN You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.
CHEECH MARIN I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just lo...
CHEECH MARIN Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in ...
MARIN CILIC Next time were here, were going to bring a wheelbarrow of cash,
CARLOS MARIN Weve included features that werent in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on the...
CARLOS MARIN We are here to help our brother nation of Bolivia.
CARLOS MARIN The thing is that we're all in our 30s. If we were 16, 18 years old, we could play that game. But we...
CARLOS MARIN Next time we’re here, we’re going ...
CARLOS MARIN I can tell you I am very happy because this was one of my goals in life. I have been here so long, a...
CARLOS MARIN I have not gotten instructions from the White House about my marching orders, but I am sure those wi...
CARLOS MARIN I think federal funds will be very limited.
CARLOS MARIN We’ve included features that werenâ€â„�...
CARLOS MARIN I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.
CHEECH MARIN Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.
MARIN HINKLE Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
CHEECH MARIN I don't imagine this taking weeks. The chairman should have a conclusion sometime early next week.
DAVE MARIN The president doesn't have a Blackberry. Andy Card's e-mails are like the president's e-mails ... th...
DAVID MARIN First of all, Craig Lucas' work, any of it, for any actor, is such good material. It's so al...
MARIN HINKLE I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turne...
CHEECH MARIN As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watchi...
CHEECH MARIN I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, ...
CHEECH MARIN We are left with a picture of a White House that was plagued by the fog of war. The committee is lik...
DAVID MARIN In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don'...
CHEECH MARIN The most special Slam is Wimbledon, of course. But where I feel the best is Melbourne. And you'r...
MARIN CILIC We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and th...
CHEECH MARIN The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in ...
CHEECH MARIN The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.
CHEECH MARIN To tell part of the truth is more dangerous than lying.
MINETTE MARIN We simply can't imagine that critical infrastructure protection will not be part of congressional re...
DAVID MARIN I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.
MARIN ALSOP she explains, ''but I think they really need to go back to their core constituents. I'd like to focu...
MARIN ALSOP It was a little like being in a hit-and-run accident.
MARIN ALSOP It was an enormous surprise when they called me last Wednesday.
MARIN ALSOP I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my level t...
MARIN ALSOP Re-branding FEMA doesn't fix the problem; it just puts a new acronym on it.
DAVID MARIN One would think state and local officials would know beforehand who would handle the dead, and where...
DAVID MARIN We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is somethin...
CHEECH MARIN I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race.
CHEECH MARIN Ne scapă mereu câte ceva în viaţă, de aceea trebuie să ne naştem mereu.
MARIN SORESCU I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre an...
CHEECH MARIN We recognize the hard work and extra commitment that businesses and nonprofits make when they incorp...
ROSARIO MARIN We believe this new Web site will become the primary 'go to' site ... for engineers, architects, bui...
ROSARIO MARIN We'll begin reviewing them immediately. It's hard to say how long that review will take, because we ...
DAVE MARIN One truly knows he is bored with life, once he attempts to become insane.
VITO MARIN Dispariţia iubirii e ca o oglindă întoarsă, nu se mai vede nimic, te uiţi zadarnic în ea. Gest...
MARIN PREDA The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.
CHEECH MARIN Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and w...
CHEECH MARIN It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate...
CHEECH MARIN Davis wants to make sure that these brave victims of financial friendly fire are taken care of.
DAVID MARIN Top federal, state and local officials failed to process and act on information at their disposal. W...
DAVID MARIN Listed literally dozens of things (the administration) did wrong. He acknowledged more institutional...
DAVID MARIN We’ve included features that weren’t in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was ...
CARLOS MARIN Next time we’re here, we’re going to bring a wheelbarrow of cash,
CARLOS MARIN If pro sports leagues don't get a handle on this problem on their own, members of Congress will be m...
DAVE MARIN Next time we’re here, we’re going to bring a wheelbarrow of cash,
CARLOS MARIN We’ve included features that weren’t in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on...
CARLOS MARIN It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga ove...
CHEECH MARIN We are working with them.
DAVID MARIN D.C. seems to be returning to the kind of practices that caused so much concern a decade ago.
DAVID MARIN Lumea trebuie s-o pătrunzi cu mintea, nu să o baţi cu picioarele! Prostul poate să meargă şi-n...
MARIN SORESCU When you're trying to look pretty, it's a lot easier to compare you to other people. I alway...
MARIN IRELAND Chavez always criticizes the US and talks about thousands of innocent people killed in Iraq, but wha...
GUSTAVO MARIN We created the theater, independently from the church, as a nonprofit organization. The idea is to c...
GENARO MARIN This was a small idea that grew wings. We've been so fortunate for the people who have come on their...
GENARO MARIN They talk freely and give their ideas. The three plays have come from conversations with the kids.
GENARO MARIN What happened between 1957 and 1983 was not addressed.
LYNDA MARIN We pushed a long time for this, and they decided to respect our request and make a presentation.
LYNDA MARIN Hey, I was raised in the church.
CHEECH MARIN As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.
CHEECH MARIN Don't ever insult a Chicano about being a Chicano because then all the other Chicanos will be on...
CHEECH MARIN Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.
CHEECH MARIN Mexicans are quasi-legal.
CHEECH MARIN Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophisticati...
CHEECH MARIN Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.
CHEECH MARIN To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexic...
CHEECH MARIN You have to want to be Chicano to be Chicano.
CHEECH MARIN If there is one phrase or action that every person on the planet would like to erase from his or her...
CHEECH MARIN What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual...
CHEECH MARIN Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and...
CHEECH MARIN It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the ...
CHEECH MARIN Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken b...
CHEECH MARIN I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then m...
CHEECH MARIN Of all the plays in baseball, stealing home is by far the most exciting.
CHEECH MARIN People don't like having to go to the polls, it's inconvenient. They don't like standing in line.
KRYSTY MARIN A candidate is not allowed to assist in early-ballot voting, but there's no law saying a campaigner ...
KRYSTY MARIN We just got sick of each other. We'd been together 17 years. We just kind of didn't want to listen t...
CHEECH MARIN There's nothing more solemn than truth. There's no greater grievance to a tomb than hypocrisy, or a ...
LUIS MUNOZ-MARIN 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 Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and...
JUDITH GUEST 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 Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving ven...
JUDITH GUEST 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 For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.
JUDITH GUEST 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 There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with ...
JUDITH MARTIN I knew that sunny citrus helped put things in focus, sharpened the memory, just like a squeeze of le...
JUDITH FERTIG Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes.
It makes people overjoyed, and puts...
JUDITH OLNEY When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.
JUDITH MARTIN When I did my first price guide in 1979, publications weren't interested in mentioning it. Now I...
JUDITH MILLER When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Ev...
JUDITH MILLER I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have...
JUDITH MILLER You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows...
JUDITH MILLER