Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism wit...
FLORENCE KING Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalme...
FLORENCE KING Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
FLORENCE KING Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning...
FLORENCE KING To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexand...
FLORENCE KING Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been ...
FLORENCE KING Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
FLORENCE KING He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
FLORENCE KING People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
FLORENCE KING Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: p...
FLORENCE KING Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
FLORENCE KING We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy...
FLORENCE KING During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eightie...
FLORENCE KING People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced...
FLORENCE KING In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For p...
FLORENCE KING Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, ...
FLORENCE KING American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pa...
FLORENCE KING Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism wi...
FLORENCE KING Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. F...
FLORENCE KING Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
FLORENCE KING The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value,...
FLORENCE KING Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equalit...
FLORENCE KING The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes t...
FLORENCE KING Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. W...
FLORENCE KING Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the pl...
FLORENCE KING Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
FLORENCE KING I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
FLORENCE KING In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bi...
FLORENCE KING The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys w...
FLORENCE KING We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition o...
FLORENCE KING Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: ...
FLORENCE KING Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.
FLORENCE KING Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and m...
FLORENCE KING Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat
FLORENCE KING Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone p...
FLORENCE KING She did, however, believe in Heaven because it was a ladylike place with pink clouds, harp music, an...
FLORENCE KING Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning...
FLORENCE KING Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equalit...
FLORENCE KING Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting...
FLORENCE KING Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty / as a way of enjoying elitism wit...
FLORENCE KING True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories
FLORENCE KING Lacking ladylike poison, Lizzie (Borden) did what every over-civilized, understated Wasp is entirely...
FLORENCE KING I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
FLORENCE KING Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may...
FLORENCE KELLEY If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking fo...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a stor...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rat...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once i...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her p...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on h...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not s...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enou...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it sho...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman h...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything bett...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the gre...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first m...
FLORENCE WELCH I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and sud...
FLORENCE WELCH I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorp...
FLORENCE WELCH I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects lik...
FLORENCE WELCH I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
FLORENCE WELCH The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and tryin...
FLORENCE WELCH I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
FLORENCE WELCH I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was ...
FLORENCE WELCH The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of dif...
FLORENCE WELCH It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being...
FLORENCE WELCH You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
FLORENCE WELCH I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
FLORENCE WELCH I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part o...
FLORENCE WELCH I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
FLORENCE WELCH The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
FLORENCE WELCH I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that ...
FLORENCE WELCH I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means tha...
FLORENCE WELCH Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say somethi...
FLORENCE WELCH When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energie...
FLORENCE WELCH I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
FLORENCE WELCH In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak a...
FLORENCE KELLEY Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of t...
FLORENCE KELLEY I grew up in a very large, poor family.
FLORENCE HENDERSON A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their m...
FLORENCE HENDERSON For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people...
FLORENCE HENDERSON There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
FLORENCE HENDERSON I frequently am contacted by people who want to thank me for 'The Brady Bunch.' Whether they...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice p...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I do think children come in wired a certain way. Why else would I be filled with hope and optimism? ...
FLORENCE HENDERSON It's so important to keep moving and don't buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel lik...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, ...
FLORENCE HENDERSON It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, ...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matte...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
FLORENCE HENDERSON If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anyb...
FLORENCE HENDERSON You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do...
FLORENCE HENDERSON My children and their happiness have always been my greatest concern.
FLORENCE HENDERSON I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real...
FLORENCE HENDERSON When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never se...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
FLORENCE HENDERSON Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was alw...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that...
FLORENCE HENDERSON My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficul...
FLORENCE HENDERSON Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
FLORENCE HARDING I have only one real hobby - my husband.
FLORENCE HARDING I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, b...
FLORENCE GREEN I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they...
FLORENCE GREEN Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neith...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted an...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Sure we could replace war with paintball battles. But it would escalate to paint grenades, paint bom...
DAN FLORENCE The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into th...
FLORENCE SABIN I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and ...
FLORENCE KELLEY The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in thi...
FLORENCE KELLEY The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the wo...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of m...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bod...
FLORENCE KELLEY Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I...
FLORENCE WELCH In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself bette...
FLORENCE KELLEY The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, th...
FLORENCE KELLEY I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions wh...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when h...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - h...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is ...
TYLER FLORENCE Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To...
FLORENCE WELCH On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she...
FLORENCE KELLEY I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I...
TYLER FLORENCE At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. ...
FLORENCE WELCH I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, m...
FLORENCE WELCH I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas ...
FLORENCE WELCH Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or ...
TYLER FLORENCE My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the s...
FLORENCE WELCH It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find ama...
TYLER FLORENCE My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. An...
FLORENCE WELCH 'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, waili...
FLORENCE WELCH 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of t...
FLORENCE WELCH I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started g...
FLORENCE WELCH Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out o...
TYLER FLORENCE Baghdad is at the heart of the major issues of our time. For a foreign correspondent it is a dream t...
FLORENCE AUBENAS I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.
FLORENCE AUBENAS Obviously, you have no other proof but your word. So I hope they are going to believe her, as they b...
FLORENCE AUBENAS She came to this country to do her job as a journalist and not anything else.
FLORENCE AUBENAS Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holi...
FLORENCE ALLSHORN First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurant...
TYLER FLORENCE Books, I think, are what magic smells like.
MILLIE FLORENCE I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in s...
FLORENCE WELCH Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ou...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or lat...
FLORENCE SHINN It's about how to make the best meat loaf or fried chicken or macaroni and cheese. It's about brilli...
TYLER FLORENCE It's a more intimate setting. We wanted our brides to have a good selection but be able to remember ...
FLORENCE BELCHER We're setting the show up like a wedding. The fashion show will take place with the brides walking d...
FLORENCE BELCHER [By eating fish] you may be replacing a fatty meal like a bacon cheeseburger with something low in f...
FLORENCE SHEEHAN I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
FLORENCE WELCH I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do d...
FLORENCE WELCH I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my prot...
FLORENCE WELCH She had met people who had tried to fit in. She had met people who tried to stand out. But until the...
MILLIE FLORENCE I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
FLORENCE WELCH Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any e...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'de...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE How very little can be done under the spirit of fear
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown o...
TYLER FLORENCE What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about whic...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they o...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone...
FLORENCE BALLARD As a chef, I prefer fish over meat,
TYLER FLORENCE I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as t...
TYLER FLORENCE I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called ...
FLORENCE WELCH I can expect no sympathy or help from (my family).
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE It was kind of schizophrenic at times because she was still mom. But after a while, in a weird way, ...
FLORENCE SEIDELMAN We are just letting everybody in the community know that this is a possibility if they want to see t...
FLORENCE PATERNO They're designing a poster for our advertising push. I thought that was kind of neat that these kids...
FLORENCE PATERNO It's not quite the crowd we had hoped for but everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.
FLORENCE PATERNO We're trying to integrate the two buildings into one cultural arts center.
FLORENCE PATERNO We want people to dress up like a star. But, if they don't want to, come casual.
FLORENCE PATERNO To be honest, I think the only show that's doing OK for them is House . It seems to have grown in te...
FLORENCE NG In the United States an American is top priority, service delivery is top priority and this is the t...
FLORENCE MUMBA We are failing as a country because our structures have broken down. We have left everything to the ...
FLORENCE MUMBA Winners win because they try out something.
FLORENCE MUMBA After each fashion show, we will also have a fantasy reception in order to showcase the talents of o...
FLORENCE BELCHER We hope that it will encourage the grooms to come out and take part in the wedding. it will give the...
FLORENCE BELCHER My goal has always been to be like a female George Burns. Having had the opportunity to work with hi...
FLORENCE HENDERSON There's an old Chinese proverb that says the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ...
FLORENCE HENDERSON