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I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.
Quote by -Sharon Stone
It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.
Quote by -Sharon Stone
When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.
Quote by -Sharon Stone
I don't take myself very seriously. I like to make people laugh. You know, it's like, if a woman can't be happy for another woman's work, they have to go work on that.
Quote by -Sharon Stone
Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'
Quote by -Sharon Stone
Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.
Quote by -Sharon Stone
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.' 'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.
Quote by -Shirley Jackson
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
Quote by -Rainer Maria Rilke
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.
Quote by -Rainer Maria Rilke
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.
Quote by -Rainer Maria Rilke
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.
Quote by -Rainer Maria Rilke
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Quote by -Rainer Maria Rilke