Top 1200 Great Female Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

During my modelling days, I would hear there's no dearth of female models aspiring to be actors.

I'm a huge fan of Brian Clough. I might be his female equivalent but I'm quite happy with that.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

You don't always need to be this flawless female with amazing skin and done hair. Perfect doesn't exist.

One of the main things I said in my job interview was that I want to develop female coaches.

I have been very lucky that I never got typecast while playing female characters.

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years

Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

One of the biggest challenges you face as a female manager is getting a foot in the door to be interviewed fairly.

If you're not funding female-founded firms, you're leaving behind half your talent.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.

I'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.

I get it - there are very few black female actresses who have been given chances.

I think the female gaze is important because we cannot have just one perspective on anything.

I hope and look forward to the day that there will be a female president of the United States.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.

Any female who can hold her own in a male dominated environment is impressive.

I feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.

One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that.

I am a big advocate of female entrepreneurs. I do what I can to advise and help them along in their careers.

For many female wrestlers, the opportunity to fight for the title represents the crowning achievement of their careers.

When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

When we don't say 'male director,' then why call them 'female directors?'

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.

A female Dalai Lama must be very attractive, otherwise not much use.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

I've gotten to work with some amazing brands that, in many cases, market to female consumers.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

God, I hate my voice! Everyone thinks I'm a female, probably... I am actually a male!

Disney has proved without a shadow of a doubt that movies with a female lead work.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

From a young age, I felt like I was supposed to be the sort of female who is doing something strong.