Aureus Asset Quotes & Sayings

I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama. — Dennis Quaid

The righteous do not always do right, but their souls remain pure. — J.R. Ward

The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. — Susan Sontag

She's saying she used to hide her feet between his legs. Feet icy as cold stones, and that he warmed them, like bread baking in the oven. She says he nibbled her feet saying they were like golden loaves from the oven. And that she slept cuddled close to him, inside his skin, lost in nothingness as she felt her flesh part like a furrow turned by a plow first burning, then warm and gentle thrusting against her soft flesh, deeper, deeper until she cried out ... What shall I do now with my lips without his lips to cover them? What shall become of my poor lips? — Juan Rulfo

We shouldn't always have what we want: it spoils the best of us, doesn't it? — Anne Bronte

Languages shape the way we think, or don't. — Erik Naggum

When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society. — Arthur Curley

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much. — Shelley Long

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship. — Vanessa Redgrave

The aim I have set before me in this book is to give back to English readers the understanding of and delight in this great poet which thrilled his contemporaries and early successors. — Janet Spens

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it. — Melissa Bank

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%. — Thomas Jefferson

No, it's very comforting actually, to know that you're sitting in a long legacy of actresses who've played the role. I'm absolutely all for absorbing all of those influences, so you understand the pedigree of the part as much as you understand the figure in history ... because you are playing the part. You don't say: "Gosh, I want to play Peter Sellers ... " because you can sort of do that in your own bathroom. — Cate Blanchett

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink. — Chuck Palahniuk