List of Edna Ferber Quotes

Texas History Is A Varied, Tempestuous, And Vast As The State Itself. Texas Yesterday Is Unbelievable, But No More Incredible Than Texas Today. Today's Texas Is Exhilarating, Exasperating, Violent, Charming, Horrible, Delightful, Alive.

Science Had Married The Wilderness And Was Taming The Savage Shrew.

But Almost Any Place Is Baghdad If You Don't Know What Will Happen In It.

Imported Actors, Like Certain Wines, Sometimes Do Not Stand The Ocean Trip. This Can Be As True Of American Actors In Europe As It Is Of European Actors In America.

I Like Any Place That Isn't Here.

A Story Must Simmer In Its Own Juice For Months Or Even Years Before It's Ready To Serve.

Any Garment Which Is Cut To Fit You Is Much More Becoming, Even If It Is Not So Splendid As A Garment Which Has Been Cut To Fit Somebody Not Of Your Stature.

The Astronomers Tell Us That Other Planets Are Gifted With Two - Four - Even Nine Lavish Moons. Imagine The Romantic Possibilities Of Nine Moons.

Now Gae Your Wa'stho'anes As Gude As Ever Happit Flesh And Blude, Yet Part We Maunthe Case Sae Hard Is, Amang The Writers And The Bardies That Lang They'll Brook The Auld I Trow, Or Neibours Cry,'weel Brook The New'.

Writers Of Novels Are So Busy Being Solitary That They Haven't Time To Meet One Another. But Then, A Writer Learns Nothing From A Writer, Conversationally. If A Writer Has Anything Witty, Profound Or Quotable To Say He Doesn't Say It. He's No Fool. He Writes It.

Any Man Who Can Look Handsome In A Dirty Baseball Suit Is An Adonis. There Is Something About The Baggy Pants, And The Micawber-shaped Collar, And The Skull-fitting Cap, And The Foot Or So Of Tan, Or Blue, Or Pink Undershirt Sleeve Sticking Out At The Arms, That Just Naturally Kills A Man's Best Points.

Celebratin' New Year's Eve Is Like Eatin' Oranges. You Got To Let Go Your Dignity T' Really Enjoy 'em.