"Wild women don't get the blues."

-- Ida Cox

#Wild Women Quotes

“Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.”
“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.”
“I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

Source : "Ideas & Trends: The Bondholders Are Winning; Why America Won't Boom" by Louis Uchitelle, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 1994.
“You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”
“Sometimes you go to a film and well, you are not very concentrated. In reading, you have to concentrate, to spend the time it requires in order to feel the experience of the work. You have to put all of yourself there to experience something new and to feel and perceive an atmosphere that is unprecedented.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.”
“In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.”
“Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.”

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