Quotes of: Miser Keyword

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

Bette Davis

If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.

Valerie Tripp

There's something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn't work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without meaning to offend anyone, a musical like 'Les Miserables' would be the last thing I'd ever be interested in.

Pedro Almodovar

We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.

The Coming Storm

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

Eating People is Wrong

She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.

The Glass Room

Too bad that miserable tribe died with their secrets.” Tossing the crystal across the table, she announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, the kingdom of the gods is within our grasp.

The Guardian's Wildchild

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

The Hero of Ages

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

The Broken Kingdoms

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

On Beauty

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

Rem Koolhaas

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

Jitterbug Perfume

...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

Serious Concerns

It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one....

A Sentimental Journey

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Letters to Sir William Temple

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, That's one of my favorite things to say.

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol