Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Be that self which one truly is.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.