Akalaitis Beckett Quotes & Sayings

Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera. — Alfred Molina

To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver. — Todd Stocker

At this point, Underwood turns to us and remarks that "the only thing more satisfying than convincing someone to do what I want is failing to persuade them on purpose. It's like a Do Not Enter sign - it just begs you to walk through the door. — J. Edward Hackett

In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared. — Francis Quarles

Nobody has proved to my friends that the Nazis were wrong about the Jews. Nobody can. The truth or falsity of what the Nazis said, and of what my extremist friends believed, was immaterial, marvelously so. There simply was no way to reach it, no way, at least, that employed the procedures of logic and evidence. The bill-collector told me that Jews were filthy, that the home of a Jewish woman in his boyhood town was a pigsty; and the baker told me that the Jews' fanaticism about cleanliness was a standing affront to the "Germans," who were clean enough. What difference did the truth, if there were truth, make? I — Milton Sanford Mayer

Whether I liked to admit it or not, every girl secretly wants her own personal champion, someone who'll rush in and beat the crap out of anyone who looks at her sideways. The kicker, of course, is there's a fine line between a knight in shining armor and a chauvinistic jerk. I want someone who will go to bat for me, not take away my bat and tell me to sit nicely on the bench where I won't get dirty, if you know what I mean. — Liz Jasper

Knowing how to love unconditionally is the ultimate knowledge of life. — Debasish Mridha

Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity. — Timothy Keller

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality ... — Damien Hirst

Better our evil empire than theirs. — Peter Fehervari

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity. — Ethan Zuckerman

He pushes my lips open with his and we sink into each other. It's crazy and wonderful every part of me is melty with desire. It's all just breath and body between us. — Carolyn Crane

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar. — Margaret Atwood

When you are networking you are doing more than just marketing your business; you are marketing yourself. — Timothy M. Houston