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The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance. — Shelley Berman

And I call on you, spirits of the dead, and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work. Let — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I thought of Shelley in the hospital, how she said sometimes sadness only looked like anger and judgment. Maybe fear did too. — Holly Cupala

O weep for Adonis - He is dead."
"Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. — Mary Shelley

What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Tolerance isn't a trait, it's a skill. Learn it. Use it. Embrace it. We are all perfect in our own way ... just as God intended. — Shelley K. Wall

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery! — Mary Shelley

I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the very leaves under which they pass — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. — Mary Shelley

I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do? — Mary Shelley

I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sooner or later, you're gonna listen to Ralph Nader. — Pete Shelley

And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Many times what we see as our biggest mistakes and failures can become what God uses the most. However, — Shelley Hitz

I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. — Mary Shelley

Some people think tears are a sign of weakness. But I see tears as a God-given way for us to express emotion. — Shelley Hitz

Shelley's love was deep, sincere, passionate, indeed everlasting-but it was always changing its object. — Paul Johnson

Poet's food is love and fame. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

If there's anything I hate, it's someone telling me "don't" without saying why. — Shelley Adina

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Every single act of love, hate, or lapse of judgment may be the defining moment in a person's life. — Shelley K. Wall

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem. — Shelley Long

In my stories I kill off every love scene with a joke. Don't try this at home. — Shelley Malec Vitale

I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson. — Shelley Duvall

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Idle hands make fretful minds. — Shelley Shepard Gray

What I find with my fellow female members of Congress is that we tend to work very hard. While we're very focused, we can also multitask a lot better. — Shelley Moore Capito

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. — Shelley Mosley

A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. — Mary Shelley

I have drunken deep of joy ... — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me. — Mary Shelley

...I was a shattered wreck,--the shadow of a human being. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. — Mary Shelley

Humility is a wonderful character trait. It ensures your head and heart go through the door before your ass does. — Shelley K. Wall

Be a man, or be more than a man. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? — Mary Shelley

Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. — Mary Shelley

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend. — Shelley Duvall

(...) but, oh! the weight of never-ending time - the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours! — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If one wanted models of good behaviour, one must be a model of good behaviour oneself. — Shelley Adina

I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven. — Ted Danson

Sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish. — Shelley Winters

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm sorry. Two simple words with the power to change worlds. — Shelley Coriell

Evil thenceforth became my good. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career. — Shelley Duvall

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hell is a city much like London. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Never apologize for being you. — Shelley Coriell

The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables. — Mary Shelley

I met Murder on the way -
He had a mask like Castlereagh — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes. — Shelley Duvall

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. — Mary Shelley

Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit. — Mary Shelley

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are. — Shelley Winters

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress. — Shelley Berkley

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife — Shelley Winters

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. — Shelley Berman

The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work. — Shelley Winters

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Silence can hurt worse than mean words. — Shelley Coriell

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish. — Mary Shelley

Is there anything you can't do?"

"Plenty, Mrs. Proffitt. I just don't dwell on them. — Shelley Gray

To hope til Hope creates from its own wreak the thing it contemplates; — Percy Bysshe Shelley

But honestly, I hate my dad the most. Because you love him the most. When you give someone your love, you give them power over you. — Shelley Coriell

It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night. — Mary Shelley

And the sunlight claps the earth,
And the moonbeam kiss the sea,
What is all these sweet work worth,
If thou kiss not me. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love. — Shelley Berman

...one did not need to speak much, only to say what was worth hearing when one did. — Shelley Adina

Shall I not then hate them who abhor me? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey! — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It was my temper to avoid a crowd, and to attach myself fervently to a few. — Mary Shelley

Friendship, a dear balm...
A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

True Love in this differs from gold and clay,/That to divide is not to take away. — Percy Bysshe Shelley