“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.”
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film and television actress from the United States 1908–1989Related quotes
“But then I got fired from so many jobs, I ended up retiring and being supported by my parents.”
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“Feel as though my soul has turned into steel. I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.”
Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet
“I’ve got a problem with my legs, they just can’t walk past a chippy.”
Ricky Hatton has his demons too http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A19096149?s_fromedit=1
Quoted in "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women", p. 7 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KOVGUVYj2XUC&pg=PA7&dq=%22I'm+not+as+klutzy+as+I+used+to+be%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Jfz6Tt78KpSm8gPfwpXeCA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22I'm%20not%20as%20klutzy%20as%20I%20used%20to%20be%22&f=false
["'Hot Guy of the Week': American Idol's Blake Lewis", http://usmagazine.com/hot_guy_blake_lewis, May 21, 2007, 2007-06-02, US Weekly]
In interviews
“I got a bad, bad feeling my baby don't live here no more…
But that's alright i still got my guitar.”
Red House
Song lyrics, Are You Experienced? (1967)
“Uxbridge: By God, sir, I've lost my leg!
Wellington: By God, sir, so you have!”
Exchange said to have occurred at the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815), after Lord Uxbridge lost his leg to a cannonball; as quoted in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
Variant account:
Uxbridge: I have lost my leg, by God!
Wellington: By God, and have you!
Thomas Hardy, in The Dynasts, Pt. III Act VII, scene viii, portraying the incident.
