Bassd Quotes & Sayings

The hardest work that actors have done, including myself, is on poorly written scripts. And when you first start out you do anything. I did a lot of crap. I did more crap than I can tell you. But you did it because you needed the money. You have to pay for your pictures and resumes, and classes and insurance and food like everybody else. In those days if it was crap you just didn't put it on your resume. — Bryan Cranston

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society ... It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them. — John Henry Newman

They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came. — Tania James

The pistol against her back was as hard and cold as death, and the feeling soothed her. — Haruki Murakami

Some of my kin look just like trees now, and need something great to rouse them; and they speak only in whispers. But some of my trees are limb-lithe, and many can talk to me. — J.R.R. Tolkien

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me. — John Rzeznik

Keep an open heart
To allow the world
Lovingly and faithfully
To come in. — Sri Chinmoy

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups. — Steven Weinberg

Anaxagoras' belief that lying on the right side during sex would produce a boy was so influential that centuries later some French aristocrats had their left testicles amputated. — Matt Ridley

Nonethless it had been a castle, with all that this implies: it had had towering walls and turrets, beams as great as trees, arched doorways wide enough for processions to pass through, ceilings so cavernous that owls nested in them. It had had wings and ramparts and thin windows from which to shoot arrows, internal courtyards, banquet rooms, hidden doors, secret passages. It had had a chapel and, in its bowels, a dungeon. It housed sculptures and paintings, tapestries and cushions, carpets and carvings, its fortressed heart had been clad in glit, silver, glass, gold, damask, ivory, ermine. — Sonya Hartnett

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams

I look at everyone in their Honda CR-Vs and their BMW X3s and their Audi Q3s and I think, Are you all mad? An ordinary estate or hatchback costs less to buy and less to run and is nicer to drive, more comfortable and just as practical. But it doesn't take up so much bloody space. — Jeremy Clarkson