I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

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I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

Berke Breathed

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

Berke Breathed

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

Berke Breathed

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Berke Breathed

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

Berke Breathed

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

William Petersen

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

Sasha Cohen

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.

John Wilson

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

Amy Sedaris

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

Patricia Highsmith

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

Danielle Steel

I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.

Danny Pintauro

I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady.

Anne Robinson

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

Wilson Mizner

I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

Gene Simmons

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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

William Shakespeare

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

Bette Midler

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.

Arthur Godfrey

Luck, be a lady tonight.

Frank Loesser

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Brigitte Bardot

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

J. M. Coetzee

I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it because I'm a lady.

Ruth Warrick

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

Maureen O'Hara

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Prince Charles

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Ambrose Bierce

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

Matthew Ashford

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Janis Joplin

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

Wayne Rogers

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

Anna Kournikova

Well, I've known Elizabeth almost all of her life and almost all of my life. And I love her with all of my heart and she's always been there for me. She's a wonderful, wonderful dame. She's a great lady.

Liza Minnelli

This lady is not for turning.

Margaret Thatcher

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

P. J. O'Rourke

The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.

Gary Hart

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.

Jane Grey

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

Timothy Zahn

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

Dean Koontz

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

Charles Phillips

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

Cesar Romero

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

Samuel Richardson

Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.

Gloria Gaynor

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

Amy Sedaris

Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.

Julie Andrews

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

Nancy Reagan