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There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile "gotta change" treadmill, which never really ends.


Shirley Jones

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SHIRLEY CONRAN If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All tha...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive re...
JOHN SHIRLEY By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only t...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have pe...
SHIRLEY MANSON For me, the safest place is out on a limb
SHIRLEY MACLAINE My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Good luck needs no explanation.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anyw...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Among Republicans, there is universal outrage that Gore and the Democrats won't accept the results o...
CRAIG SHIRLEY Right now you could flip a 12-sided coin and come up with the nominee.
CRAIG SHIRLEY Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.
WILLIAM SHIRLEY I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
SHIRLEY MANSON When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, y...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE [The lunch also brought the elusive Allen Franklin, retired Southern Co. CEO, back to the city from ...
SHIRLEY FRANKLIN At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. ...
CRAIG SHIRLEY We-Lyn Shaw, Norgie Hester and myself-went to see the inauguration the year George Bush was sworn in...
SHIRLEY LEINWAND "I call attention to the dark side maybe a little bit for mutual catharsis but also to try to paint ...
JOHN SHIRLEY I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I ...
JOHN SHIRLEY I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
JOHN SHIRLEY Bob [Sachs] is not the only client who wants a more finished look. People from out of state still se...
JOHN SHIRLEY I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not rea...
JOHN SHIRLEY Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.
JOHN SHIRLEY I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international r...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE