Backgrounds Quote by Steve Martin

She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's…

— Richard Masur

“Lydia sometimes saw Plath as the woman she might someday become: caring, creative, content—but inaccessible to nearly everyone alive.”

— Matthew J. Sullivan

And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held…

— Lauren Kate

she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really…

— Jonathan Franzen

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.…

— Oscar Wilde

She’d always wondered what it would feel like to stand on one end of a ballroom and watch a handsome, powerful man make his…

— Tessa Dare

“Somehow, though, neither her clothes nor her features seemed to matter—they were the adornments of a painting or a picture, not the real thing.…

— Benedict Jacka

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

— Deborah Harkness

“The woman had an interesting set of features on her. Like she wasn’t quite sure what beautiful was supposed to look like. Her”

— Noah Barnett

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

— John Irving

Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed,…

— Markus Zusak