Maid Quotations

'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.

In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.

I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.

A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

MAID takes all the negatives of disc out of the picture. Hard disc drives are faster and more reliable than tape. When you add the option of powering down drives when not in use, you eliminate heat and power consumption as the major negative points in running large hard drive archives.

Maid of Athens, ere we part, / Give, oh give me back my heart!

My grandmother was a maid and baby sitter, ... From the time she was a teenager until she was 85 years old, she was working for somebody. Both she and my mother took on whatever jobs they could. Anything to have an extra dime or quarter. They made tremendous sacrifices.

He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.

What I saw during the postseason, and we talked with Lou Piniella about this on the air, is what power pitching can do for you. The Astros got hits and scratched out runs and had some Minute Maid Park home runs by (Lance) Berkman and Jason Lane, but the difference (in the series) to me is what power pitching can do in October.

He lives 15 minutes from Minute Maid Park, so that's a big advantage. He's a true champion. He took Texas to the College World Series and Houston to the World Series. We made the presentation to him that he can do the same with the Rangers.

He lives 15 minutes from Minute Maid Park, so that's a big advantage.

We had one where he was a little upset. He thought he was being encouraged, in one of the establishments, because the bar maid was giving him an empty beer bottle to use as an ashtray. Otherwise, they take their tickets and stub their cigarettes and take it like anything else.

Be in the world like a maid servant in a rich man's house. The maid servant deals with all the objects and things always knowing that nothing belongs to her and that this is not her true home.

It was all luck and it all started with that radio piece. If it wasn't for that, I'd probably still be cleaning apartments as a maid in New York.'

Otemeale is good for to make a faire and wel colored maid to looke like a cake of tallow

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo

There was no way that we would have thought that this was the scene where a horrible crime had occurred, with the maid out there cleaning the floor.

Nobles, citizens, farmers, mechanics, seamen, footmen, maid servants, even chimney sweeps and old clothes women dabbled in tulips.

Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.

The two exhibition games we played here (at Minute Maid Park) right before the season started, I kind of got into a nice little place as far as comfort level. I guess that's continued through the season.

I'm not entirely sure what all went on, we were all pretty loaded... but I do know that we all haven't had so much fun since Disney sponsored a winner take all tournament of Old Maid over at Jim Carrey's for Harp Seal pelts.

If I were sent to Siberia, it would not surprise me. I would even prefer to just be a maid than go on living like this. You will pay for your apathy.

I didn't feel like 'uh-oh' or anything. I just felt like they tied it up, and now we have to go back and score some more runs again. The way the environment is and the atmosphere here at Minute Maid with the roof closed and the crowd crazy you've got the Bushes kissing on the Kiss-Cam it's an unbelievable environment. It was great.

He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her

If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.

How, like a moth, the simple maid / Still plays about the flame!

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kind-hearted gentleman.

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine.

You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!

This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the night dreams are just as much a wish fulfillment as day dreams.