Aird Quotes & Sayings

Nothing we are told, nothing we read prepares us for the feelings we have as a new parent holding our baby, and knowing that we also hold their life in the balance. — Kim John Payne

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union. — Thomas Jefferson

I would just say there are no two roles that are more demanding than Bob Dylan of 1966 [Blanchett's role in 'I'm Not There'] and Carol Aird of 1952. I challenge any director out there to come up with a wider divide. I had to convince her to take the Dylan role, and that took effort. But with 'Carol,' she was already attached. — Todd Haynes

There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn. — Virginia Aird

I will show you the same amount of mercy given to your family. You turned your back on twenty-five years of marriage, destroyed the family unit, and put everyone through years of heartbreak and therapy. — Virginia Aird

Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes. — Roberto Calasso

Every damn one of us has faults. I feel like I was dealt an especially crummy hand."

"It got ugly. I became a man possessed by inner demons that could not be caged. I was desperate for answers that were never forthcoming. Jen avoided me like the plague. She was ever fearful of the questions that I refused to voice. All of my answers poured forth deliciously from the bottle. — Virginia Aird

If I can send you a sign, I will. — Virginia Aird

Her body feels different, no longer taut and sinewy but sponge-like fluid. Saturated. It has a different energy, a deep orangy-like pink, like the inside of a hibiscus. — Margaret Atwood

But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all is fiery and yet dark,-a solitary hell, without suffering or sin,-we would do well to commit ourselves to the guidance of a living poet of the true faculty,-Thomas Aird and see with his eyes. — Hugh Miller

If there was one thing which Sloan had learned over the years it was that you should never underestimate the element of luck in detective work. — Catherine Aird

You know, Eric, I could have sworn I heard a goat bleating while I was working in the slype yesterday evening.
I expect the Dean had separated it from the sheep, Eric said solemnly. Isn't that what clergy are for? — Catherine Aird

I'm young enough to enjoy life, and you're old enough to mind your own business. — Virginia Aird

Are you quite through with your lurid comments and wicked amusements?"

"Hardly, my dear, this is just the beginning. You may not be eager now, but I shall melt that ice of yours yet. I always get what I want, and I don't mind waiting for a little while. — Virginia Aird

It shook Therese in the profoundest part of her where no words were, no easy words like death or dying or killing Those words were somehow future, and this was present. An inarticulate anxiety, a desire to know, know anything for certain, had jammed itself in her throat for a moment she felt she could hardly breathe. — Patricia Highsmith

If you can't be a good example than you'll have to be a horrible warning. — Catherine Aird

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. — Catherine Aird

Death went well with bare stone and it was the little crowd of modern men who looked incongruous. — Catherine Aird

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life. — Fernando Pessoa

Sleep well in my arms tonight, love, but know that we must come to an understanding of sorts--for I be a full-blooded male as this fire in my loins doth remind me--and unfortunately, not the saint ye so obviously would have me! — Virginia Aird

Any chance of an appointment? I know it's a bit unusual and nervy, but I have been given a death sentence and have to get my affairs in quick order. — Virginia Aird

I...I am guilty only of love."

"Thou art a fornicator, an unclean Jezebel! — Virginia Aird

This job is so...so...I can't even begin to describe it."

Try living it on a daily basis. — Virginia Aird