It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.
No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.
[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!
What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.
In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them.
If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.
Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.