There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. – Tallulah Bankhead
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. – Tallulah Bankhead
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls dont have time. – Tallulah Bankhead
The less I behave like Whistlers mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. – Tallulah Bankhead
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. – A. Bartlett Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazi