Browsing Topic Best Nancy Quotes

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

It’s interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint.

Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls’ clothing, I couldn’t wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy’s frocks.

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.

I cannot sell my soul in order to participate with Nancy Pelosi or Carole Migden or any of them. I can’t do it.

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

Nancy has her vision and she’s a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that’s similar to most of the male directors I’ve worked with. The only difference is probably inbetween scenes, gossiping with Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand and Nancy Meyers about who’s had Botox and who hasn’t.

Have you ever found your heart’s desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I’d heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love… It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

Here comes old Rosie she’s looking mighty fine, here comes hot Nancy she’s steppin’ right on time. There go the street lights bringing on the night, here come the men faces hidden from the light.

Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan have a lot in common – they’re both smarter than their husbands and both consulted the stars for guidance, Nancy with astrology and Hillary with Barbra Streisand.

I submit that President Obama and all the democrat politicians that voted for Obamacare never even read the proposed law. Nancy Pelosi admitted it. So, now, when chaos reigns, they act surprised that things aren’t working.

When, you know, I’m busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else’s mess ?- we don’t want somebody sitting back saying, you’re not holding the mop the right way. Why don’t you grab a mop, why don’t you help clean up. You’re not mopping fast enough. That’s a socialist mop. Grab a mop ?- let’s get to work.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

We didn’t think the library was funny looking in it’s faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called ‘The Childhood of Famous Americans.’ In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.

Mona knocked at the wrong time. Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona — Mona shouted through the door. Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up. Michael grinned at Jon. My roommate. Brace yourself. Seconds later, Mona burst through the doorway with a tray of coffee and croissants. Hi! I’m Nancy Drew! You must be the Hardy Boys!

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women’s health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, ‘take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.’ It was done on ten thousand male medical students.

I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don’t think I will. I certainly don’t think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she’s been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie.

I never thought I’d miss Nancy Reagan. There can’t be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn’t been a performance.

I always loved watching and reading family-friendly mysteries growing up, like the shows Murder, She Wrote and Nancy Drew, and am thrilled to be bringing these New York Times best-selling books right into your living room on the small screen.

We could certainly use a detective. And I’ve got to hand it to you, Nancy – you sure can keep your head.

Nancy, an attractive titian blond, grinned up at her friend.

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers – and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you – is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. ‘Your hunches are so often right it startles me.

I think Nancy Reagan felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.

I feel like when I really did my research, I both came to hate Nancy Reagan more.

Even in Kitty Kelley’s book, which is so negative, they talk about, as with all first ladies, that Nancy Reagan is constantly around to take photo ops with kids.

Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up… because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

We’ve got Nancy Pelosi. She never shuts up. It’s just occasionally we have to hood her like a falcon so we can get some sleep.