Tallulah Bankhead

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

A lot of people always question, ‘What else can she do, what else can she do?’ And I’m going to show you

I choose you, again and again at the start and finish of every single day, no matter the season, no matter the age. I choose you to struggle and succeed with, to fight and wake up with, to love and grow old with. I choose you, knowing there are still trails we must travel, knowing there are mountains left to climb. I choose you to always be by my side.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

They said eyes are the key to the soul, and after looking into yours, I know you’ve unlocked mine.

Indulgence doesn’t prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won’t indulge her.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.