She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara Sullam ; ;

She remarked that she found the night wind a little chilly, and Mr. Podger took her inside the fringe.

Gustavus Adolphus remarked: " She is going to be clever, for she has taken us all in.

She remarked that hosting the dinners is " the easiest thing in the world.

She remarked in 1981 that " Understanding what drugs can do to your children, understanding peer pressure and understanding why they turn to drugs is ... the first step in solving the problem.

She remarked in an interview that starring in the film was a positive experience for her, although she admitted that horror movies terrified her, particularly Vincent Price's House of Wax ( 1953 ).

She remarked to a journalist, " I've cast myself as Scarlett O ' Hara "; and The Observer film critic C. A. Lejeune recalled a conversation of the same period in which Leigh " stunned us all " with the assertion that Olivier " won't play Rhett Butler, but I shall play Scarlett O ' Hara.

( She later remarked, " Revue was one of those let's-throw-everyone-on-the-lot-into-a musical things, but I did a good song-and-dance number .").

She also excelled at dancing – an accomplishment often remarked by those who saw her, whether friendly or hostile, having been carefully trained in it since her early youth.

In his autobiography Steps in Time, Astaire remarked, " She ' put ' em down like a man ', no ricky-ticky-sissy stuff with Ellie.

She holidayed in the town as a child and remarked in an interview that while everything else in her life had changed, her mother and Southwold had remained the same.

She remarked that she would not want to go through the same experience again.

She once remarked of the 1978 album Ellen McIlwaine, " It could have been any other female vocalist, and next time it will be.

She was the second guest on Dietmar Schönherr's talk show Je später der Abend ( The Later the Evening ) when she, after a rather terse interview, remarked passionately to the last guest, bank robber and author Burkhard Driest: " Sie gefallen mir.

She remarked, " Even though every inmate was only allowed to do one a month, and I was only there for five months, I begged because I said I was an expert potter — ceramicist actually — and could I please make the entire nativity scene.

" Reflecting on the overall result of her rewritten scenes, Raft is said to have remarked, " She stole everything but the cameras.

An attractive, unnamed woman then came down to the ring, and announcer Bruno Sammartino remarked, " She must be some sort of movie star ," referring to her glamourous sex appeal.

Their liaison had lasted for three years ... At the soirée I was struck by my brother-in-law's state of nervous exhaustion but I thought it well to try and calm him by saying a word or two about Mary which would please him, so I remarked quite simply: " She is very beautiful.

She remarked that Benny was so enthusiastic about his own violin playing that at each break in rehearsal he would get his violin and they would play duets.

In his autobiography Steps in Time, Astaire remarked, " She ' put ' em down like a man ', no ricky-ticky-sissy stuff with Ellie.

She also remarked that riots in Bolivia might be dealt with by dividing the country up among its neighbors.

She once remarked to a close friend, " He disgusts me.

She had been a chain cigarette smoker for years, and Cagney remarked in his autobiography that when the cancer struck, " she didn't have a chance.

She has famously been quoted since as stating that she has " no memory of this tour " due to her increasing dependency on the tranquillizer Klonopin, prescribed in ever increasing amounts by a psychiatrist between 1987 and 1994 in an attempt to keep Nicks from regressing to her former abuse of cocaine.

She had an " exquisite " poise and a famously graceful deportment ; Horace Walpole once quoted Virgil as to her gait, saying, " vera incessu patuit dea " ( she was in truth revealed to be a goddess by her step ).

She famously worked in various ball-gowns without the customary cook ’ s apron, averring that women should feel cooking was easy and enjoyable, rather than messy and intimidating.

She famously compared the lengthy shoot to a cold she couldn't get rid of.

She famously snubbed the Academy when, regarding her nomination, she declared it offended her to be nominated without being asked.

The famous feminist, Gloria Steinem at one point stated, “ you became a semi-nonperson when you got married .” She also famously coined the expression ' A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle ,' Steinem dismissed marriage in 1987 as not having a ' good name.

She famously said at the time of her election, ' stop the world, Scotland wants to get on ', and her presence at Westminster proved to be a real focus for the SNP with a significant rise in membership being the result.

She lives in the English countryside and prior to the release of Soldier of Love in 2010, the Daily Mail described her as " famously reclusive "..

She was famously widowed in 1889 when Rudolf and his mistress, Mary Vetsera, were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide pact at the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods.

She refused, and the press sensationalized the family conflict and famously began referring to her as " The Mrs. Astor ".

She also famously retorted in response to Clive Anderson's suggestion that Jeffrey Archer should not be given " the oxygen of publicity " that " I'm not that happy with him having the oxygen of oxygen, actually ".

She famously relates to the tale of the missing sun deity, Amaterasu Omikami.

" She was famously treated harshly by Dreyer, who had a reputation for being a tyrannical director.

She was famously arrested on the picket line during the Grunwick dispute, where Asian women workers were striking for Union recognition.

She was a tough, pipe-smoking woman who once famously headbutted the headmaster of Lister's school when Lister came bottom in French, leading to Lister's expulsion, and whose cooking led to his being nicknamed " Fat Boy " from ages eleven to thirteen.

She was named after her father's aunt, Edith Minturn, famously painted with her husband, Isaac Newton Phelps-Stokes, by John Singer Sargent.

She was famously painted by society painter Philip de Laszlo at the age of 48.

She lived in Southern California and wrote widely ( most famously the book The Witches ' Qabalah ).

She showcased her singing abilities, famously covering Luther Vandross ' " Dance With My Father " and Dolly Parton's " I Will Always Love You ".

She is the daughter of former Fianna Fáil minister, Pádraig Flynn, who once famously described her as a " class act ".

She is well known for the Japanese voice of Monica Gellar in Friends and probably most famously Sailor Venus in Sailor Moon.

She is one of the central figures in the Middle Irish text Finn and Gráinne and most famously, in the 17th-century tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, which tells of her betrothal to Fionn mac Cumhaill, leader of the Fianna, and her subsequent elopement with Fionn's warrior Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.

She appeared in a number of films, most famously Tod Browning's Freaks ( 1932 ) which, according to the documentary on the Freaks DVD ( Freaks: The Sideshow Cinema, 2004 ), left her unhappy with the overall portrayal of the sideshow performers in the film.