Dust Quote by Dorothy Parker

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

— Hedy Lamarr

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

— Tallulah Bankhead

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

— Elizabeth I

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

— Joan of Arc

“Excuse my dust.”

— Dorothy Parker

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

— Bharati Mukherjee

“You have to be careful when you use that word,” I warn her. “It’s like an invocation. You’ll summon it.”

— Karina Halle

[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

— Haruki Murakami

“I didn't want my epitaph to be "She Played It Safe.”

— Amy Hill Hearth

[On God:] She makes everything possible.

— Helen Reddy

“[…] she kept the madness of her heart intact.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

— Friedrich Nietzsche