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I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.
— Nellie McKay
There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.
— Nellie Melba
Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.
— Nellie L. McClung
When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
— Parvesh Cheena
There are boys who will make you cry, and then there are boys who are worth spending your fabulous energy on.
— Clifford Riley
The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.
— Nellie L. McClung
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
— Nellie L. McClung
Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
— Nellie L. McClung
Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.
— Nellie L. McClung
You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.
— Nellie McKay
Less money for public media means less access to the arts.
— Nellie McKay
I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot," Nellie said. "But bagpipers are pretty much my limit.
— Larry McMurtry
(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.
— Nellie Fox
Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
— Nellie Bly
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
— Nellie Melba
A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man. -Nellie Bly
— Matthew Goodman
Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.
— Nellie L. McClung
'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'
— Nellie Bly
ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.
— Nellie Bly
I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.
— Nellie McKay
Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
— Nellie L. McClung
When my mother heard about this, she was furious, and she crossed Nellie off her prayer list. My dad put her on his instead, so she didn't miss out.
— Jeanette Winterson
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
— Nellie McKay
I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
The middle years of life come on like thunder.
— Nellie L. McClung
Do everything yourself.
— Nellie Melba
I guess you deal with what you get.
— Nellie McKay
There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.
— Nellie McKay
Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
— Nellie L. McClung
I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking.
— Nellie McKay
And you used my heart as a Kleenex," Nellie sang. "But you're the one full of snot!
— Clifford Riley
I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.
— Nellie McKay
My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay
— Larry Smith
I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.
— Nellie McKay
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.
— Nellie L. McClung
Will wrote frequently to Nellie, describing his daily routine in detail only a lover would not find exhausting.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
— Nellie L. McClung
If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.
— Nellie Fox
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.
— Nellie McKay
Always sing below your potential.
— Nellie Melba
I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.
— Nellie McKay
Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.
— Nellie L. McClung
But I have five children of my own here, and I love them all dearly.
— Nellie C. Lind
The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.
— Nellie L. McClung
I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.
— Nellie L. McClung
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
— Nellie Melba
Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
— Nellie L. McClung
Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.
— Nellie McKay
I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
— Nellie L. McClung
People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future;
— Nellie L. McClung
That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.
— Nellie L. McClung
Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.
— Nellie L. McClung
You won't be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don't worry! It's a good sign!
— Nellie Melba
It makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
— Nellie L. McClung
It hurts," Nellie said."I know," Reagan said. "No pain, no gain."
"Do you think they made that expression up for bullet wounds? — Jude Watson
Thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
— Nellie L. McClung
You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.
— Nellie McKay
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
— Nellie L. McClung
A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.
— Nellie L. McClung
Oh, wow, I love your album!" Nellie said. "Thanks," Jonah said. "Now shut up." Nellie looked like she'd been slapped.
— Rick Riordan
Never complain, never explain, get the thing done and let them howl.
— Nellie L. McClung
I said I could and I would. And I did.
— Nellie Bly
Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
— Nellie L. McClung
It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
— Nellie L. McClung
What does it feel like to get shot?""I don't recommend it," said Nellie in a controlled voice. "Chocolate is definitely better. — Gordon Korman
Every season of life has its compensations ...
— Nellie L. McClung
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.
— Nellie McKay
You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.
— Gordon Korman
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
— Nellie L. McClung
The good is the greatest rival of the best.
— Nellie L. McClung
Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?
— Nellie L. McClung
No nation ever rises higher than its women ...
— Nellie L. McClung