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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.


Dame Edna Everage

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DAME EDNA EVERAGE I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
DAME EDNA EVERAGE I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friend...
KARRIE WEBB He's sitting in a ... maximum security cell, while members of the intelligence community, some of wh...
ANTHONY WEINER That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.
NICHOLAS SPARKS My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.
ELIZABETH KENNY I can use the house to create a home. I can offer my family, my friends, myself, and even strangers ...
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MIKE PATTON When we met, we just blended. We met as strangers and remained friends.
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DAN HAREL My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
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INDRA NOOYI I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysf...
DIANE FARR My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. A...
DAVE BRUBECK ...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there wil...
ROHINTON MISTRY Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing...
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TOM FELTON I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mothe...
BARRY HUMPHRIES Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they...
HEATHER CHAPPLE My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers...
VICTOR HUGO Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of ...
JOHN LAHR In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church o...
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ALI SALIM We havent broken it down, ... When we met with (Johnson), thats not what she wanted. We opted not to...
BETH PAYNE You know how my mother and father met? In a train robbery!
TZIPI LIVNI I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i...
MELVYN BRAGG Growing up, we were almost strangers. Six years is a big difference. You live in the same house. You...
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PAUL KEATING I don't eat out much. I eat mostly home food and no carbs after 5 P.M. You are what you eat, and...
TIGER SHROFF What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it...
MIHAIL SEBASTIAN I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a...
OLIVIA HUSSEY The policy now seems to be that 'if you say you are friends with us in the war on terror, we'll forg...
DONALD PAYNE My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land, Two hurrying sha...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?
SHARON STONE I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer ther...
CHANTAL AKERMAN To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accompli...
DOUG COOPER My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Sp...
SARAH BRIGHTMAN My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming ...
CHRISTINE KEELER A voice in my head tells me that I'm at the twilight of an extraordinary life. I say extraordina...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY We are still in the kitchen now, but there is nothing yet. There are only pressures on us.
HASEEB AREF I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my...
MARGARET CHO My friends, there are no friends.
COCO CHANEL Are you in love with me, Camryn Bennett?”
… “Not yet,” I say with a smile in my voice, ...
J.A. REDMERSKI I used to go to the stables and fool with the mules. My mother lived in constant fear that I might b...
RUDOLPH VALENTINO A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, c...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dy...
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LEE IACOCCA In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl'
TOM LEHRER My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchi...
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LEE IACOCCA My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, '...
MONTE IRVIN We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upb...
MAHESH BABU I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a spe...
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JACQUELINE SWEET To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.
WALTER CRONKITE In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England ...
GEOFFREY COTTRELL In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England...
GEOFFREY COTTRELL Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except f...
GERMAINE GREER Let them be gone now, them and all the others, those I have used and those I have not used, give me ...
SAMUEL BECKETT You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
JIM HENSON Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
ROD MCKUEN Some people say friends are like the leaves of tree, they change by the seasons... I say, in friends...
TORNADO KAI These were his friends, and his mother was wrong: they weren’t bad friends. Maybe, he thought, the...
STEPHEN KING There is no way to re-create that until you are out there. Now I know what to work on in my swing.
JEFF GOVE I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find th...
MARGOT ROBBIE You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. ...
STEVEN SEAGAL In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees...
Strangers are like friends
KOBAYASHI ISSA I mention I'm going home, and I'm a star immediately! This used to happen with my boyfriends...
ELAINE STRITCH As I reflect on all my friends and colleagues in my life on this special occasion... Mother is only ...
MARK W BOYER If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peac...
WILLIAM BERKELEY My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
D'ARCY CARDEN Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
C.S. LEWIS Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
CALVIN & HOBBES At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.
BILL FORSYTH My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was co...
ROSEMARY MAHONEY How did you do that?”
I shrug. “I click my heels three times and say, ‘There’s no plac...
CYNTHIA HAND Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reser...
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it m...
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Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of a...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It is not true that is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over again.
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
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And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet ther...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you m...
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Too soon, withdrawn my words too late;
And eaten in an ech...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a lit...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
EDNA O'BRIEN The undercurrent of my every thought:
To seek you, find you, have you for my own.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it pe...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I love humanity, but I hate people.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Time Does Not Bring Relief

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...
EDNA O'BRIEN My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my frie...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY And he whose soul is flat -- the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It g...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I've been a wicked girl," said I: "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Life must go on; I forget just why.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you wi...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It giv...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic a...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Lost in Hell,-Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY