Top 25 Quotes by Cynthia Heimel of 61 - Page 3

This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry

This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff.

Cynthia Heimel

New York, Tunnels, Bridges

It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.

Cynthia Heimel

People, Manhattan, Awful

Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.

Cynthia Heimel

Drama, Taken, Roots

You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it.

Cynthia Heimel

Dangerous

Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.126, Grove Press

[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.

Cynthia Heimel

Dog, Four, Intervention

A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

Cynthia Heimel

Comedian, Comedy, Demon

Cynthia Heimel (1988). “But Enough about You”, Fireside

success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.

Cynthia Heimel

Next Day, Smell, People

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.

Cynthia Heimel

Girl, Women, Feelings

Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

a car is just a moving, giant handbag! You never have actually to carry groceries, or dry cleaning, or anything! You can have five pairs of shoes with you at all times!

Cynthia Heimel

Moving, Shoes, Dry Cleaning

Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”