Actes Quotes & Sayings

I wish they'd hurry up with the second scene,' said Mrs. Viveash. 'If there's anything that bores me, it's entr'actes.'
'Most of one's life is an entr'acte,' said Gumbril. — Aldous Huxley

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will. — John Taft

It's a little bit like a cow listening to a recipe for beef stew. — M.R. Carey

Ask any woman today how she's doing, and there's a good chance the answer will be 'Busy!' or 'Exhausted! — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

And no matter what I was doing, another me sat in my belly, absolutely cold with terror over the question of my life. — James Baldwin

Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation - where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use — Hilary Benn

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF. — Anatoly Karpov

George Carlin maintained that anything and everything is funny given the right context. This context also includes your own history with a given group. What I can get away with and where I can go is not a problem with my audience because they know me. — Paul Provenza

There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me — John Rzeznik

What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue. — Jared Taylor

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood. — George R R Martin

I was a bookworm then, but when I came to know it, I woke among the butterflies. — George MacDonald

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. — James Fenimore Cooper

Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe. — Jean De La Fontaine