Totie Fields famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
-- Totie Fields

#Failure #Food #Two
I've waited all my life to say this... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!
-- Totie Fields
Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.
-- Totie Fields

#Happiness #Dresses #Brown
Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.
-- Totie Fields

#Children #Temples #Adults
I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.
-- Totie Fields

#Ostriches #Clothes #Looks
I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.
-- Totie Fields

#Exercise #Hands #Towns

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

Totie Fields famous quotes

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