Agrestingteacherfacesolid Quotes & Sayings

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside. — Alfonso Cuaron

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office. — Bob Corker

I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a glass of water on a hot day when you're dying of thirst, or when someone's nice to you for no reason, or ... ' Mam's pancakes with Toblerone sauce; Dad dashing up from the bar just to tell me, 'Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite'; or Jacko and Sharon singing 'For She's A Squishy Marshmallow' instead of 'For She's A Jolly Good Fellow' every single birthday and wetting themselves even though it's not at all funny; and Brendan giving his old record player to me instead of one of his mates. 'S'pose Heaven's not like a painting that's just hanging there for ever, but more like ... Like the best song anyone ever wrote, but a song you only catch in snatches, while you're alive, from passing cars, or ... upstairs windows when you're lost ... — David Mitchell

The worst sickness of men tends to originate in the sentimental way they try to combat their sicknesses. What seems like an easy cure, in the long run produces something worse than what it's supposed to overcome. Fake consolations always have to be paid for with a general and profound worsening of the original complaint. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. — Rumi

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show. — Barry Levinson

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it. — James Franco

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. — Sarah Fielding

Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing. — John Grisham

One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and performance - and that became a much bigger part of my life both as an actor and as a musician and someone who goes on stage and travels around the world and works on productions. — Jared Leto

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people. — Thomas Jefferson