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Quotes About Julia

Seven months after Grant's death, Julia received a whopping $200,000 check from Twain and $450,000 in the end—an astonishing sum for book royalties at the time. No previous book had ever sold so many copies in such a short period of time, and it rivaled that other literary sensation of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Clearly Grant had emerged victorious in his last uphill battle.
~ Ron Chernow
Few First Ladies—and the name wasn't yet commonly used—have so reveled in the White House or developed such a proprietary feeling about it. "Eight happy years I spent there—so happy!" Julia would reminisce. "It still seems as much like home to me as the old farm in Missouri, White Haven.
~ Ron Chernow
Julia's brother Lewis, who remained in California, allowed them to use his house "Wish-ton-wish"—an Indian term meaning whip-poor-will—
~ Ron Chernow
Mystic Pizza? It was one of Julia Roberts's
~ Leslie Margolis
William liked it when his fiancée spoke like that; he admired how Julia saw her life as a system of highways to be expertly navigated, and he was grateful to be in her car.
~ Ann Napolitano
The eagerness with which we endeavour to escape from misery, taught him to encourage a remote and romantic hope that Julia yet lived for him.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Why did you marry her? Physical attraction. Ambition. Everyone agrees she's the ideal wife for a painter. Loneliness, missing Sebastian. You loved him, didn't you? Oh yes. He was the frontrunner. Julia understood.
~ Evelyn Waugh
When pastor John Heyl Vincent dropped by to transmit his hope that Ulysses "might be preserved from all harm and restored to his family," Julia fairly burst out with a new fantasy: "Dear me! I hope he will get to be a major-general or something big!
~ Ron Chernow
Now that Livia had become Julia Augusta, she had an official constitutional position
~ Anthony Everitt
Nor was there much mercy toward Julia: Augustus sent her into exile;
~ Anthony Everitt
I mean, we have all fought in a club. I'm kind of known for that.
~ Julia Fox
I told my old friend Julia that Tropical Storm Julia had just slammed into the Georgia coast. She said, "We'll have to watch me closely as I seem to be gathering strength.
~ Amy Hempel
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
~ Julia Cameron
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
~ Mary Wesley
When I leave school I will drive around looking for prostitutes like Julia.
~ John van de Ruit
The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.
~ Christina Milian
I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was about three years ago. It was the first time I heard about them and then that's where I met them.
~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld
It looks like something out of Whittier's Snowbound,' Julia said. Julia could always think of things like that to say.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
It was probably a good idea to have you possible future stepmother think you were a little nuts. It would keep her on her toes and dissuade her from trying to sit down and have touchy-feely talks. Not that she expected that from Julia. Julia looked like she might head-butt people in meetings.
~ Maureen Johnson
?piewa?, ?e mo?emy by? tacy, jak oni, jak Romeo i Julia. Innymi s?owy - martwi.
~ Harlan Coben
In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.
~ Julia Child
Kathleen Mavourneen! the gray dawn is breaking,The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill.
~ Julia Crawford
Before Ellen could ask what she meant, she was striding off again.
~ Julia Donaldson
There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding.
~ Julia Golding