In our film profession you may have (Clark Gable`s) looks, (Spencer Tracy`s) art, (Marlene Dietrich`s) legs or (Elizabeth Taylor`s) violet eyes, but they don`t mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
- Frank CapraIn our film profession you may have Gable`s looks, Tracy`s art, Marlene`s legs or Liz`s violet eyes, but they don`t mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
- Frank CapraYou can`t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
- Alexander BarclayViolet Beauregarde: (with her finger in her nose) Spitting`s a nasty habit. Willy Wonka: I know a worse one.
- Andy BernsteinThe splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it's scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness.
- Barbara PorchWho in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
- Herman MelvilleThe truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.
- Starhawk