#lou

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#actress #devil #great #husband #i

I read my books aloud before they were published. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#before #books #i #published #read

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#days #even #evening #father #many

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#books #chance #could #down #get

These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#each #i #i think #important #kids

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#become #believe #credulous #danger #enough

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#bear #coat #colour #criticised #gets

I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#better #brain #definitely #either #fabulous

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. ↗

— Chuck Close

#art history #description #great #history #know

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life. ↗

— James Coburn

#kind #life #magnificent #miraculous #my life