Mae West Lips

Famous quotes containing the words mae west, west and/or lips:

    The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ....
    Mae West (1892–1980)

    It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.
    —For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)