Category: Quotations

That’s not writing, that’s typing.Truman Capote, appraising the work of Jack Kerouac

You’re too short for that gesture.Addison DeWitt to Eve Harrington in “All About Eve,” when she throws open her hotel room door and tells him to get out

He’s so pathetic, poor thing.  It’s like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.Elton John, referring to Keith Richards

Every word she writes is a lie, including “and” and “the”. Mary McCarthy, referring to nemesis Lillian Hellman

You are like the smell of drainsin a restaurant where pâté maisonis a slab of cold meatloafdamp and woolly.You lack charmPoet James Schuyler

In time you’ll drop dead, and I’ll come to your funeral in a red dress. Cher, in “Moonstruck”

She might have meant something once, but I don’t know many people my age who care.Lily Allen, referring to Madonna