23350 Quotes & Sayings

I got fascinated by the silence and by what happens when you venture out in that enormous emptiness — Sarah Maitland

I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes. — Jane Fonda

Don't hold back you life because of the choices someone else made. — Kimberly Lauren

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever. — Anne Lamott

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films. — Jacques Rivette

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food. — Rudolf Steiner

The only justification of private property," said Orren Boyle, "is public service. — Ayn Rand

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power. — Klaus Fuchs

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority. — Nicolas Chamfort

No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to live with criticism, and I don't take it personally. — Lauren Socha

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul. — Ellen G. White

Since all wealth ultimately comes from God, His people ought to acknowledge His primacy by offering Him the best of their wealth, time, and abilities. — Max Anders

I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights. — James Kavanaugh