Bernadette Harvey Quotes & Sayings

It's a question of wanting to know how the story turns out. And one can only know that about one story, ever. — Caleb Crain

If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they'd be running after you with scary faces and big hands to pull you back to sing Don't Cry For Me Argentina, you wouldn't like singing either. — Roisin Murphy

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do. — Charlie Munger

The love of the painter standing alone and staring, staring at the great coloured surface he is making. Standing with him in the room the rearing canvas stares back with tentative shapes halted in their growth, moving in a new rhythm from floor to ceiling. The twisted tubes, the fresh paint squeezed and smeared across the dry upon his palette. The dust beneath the easel. The paint has edged along the brushes' handles. The white light in a northern sky is silent. The window gapes as he inhales his world. His world: a rented room, and turpentine. He moves towards his half-born. He is in love. — Mervyn Peake

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat

Much of my work has come from being lazy. — John Backus

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think ... let the character develop and grow inside me. — Casey Affleck

Each full, deep inhale creates more space in your body and mind. Each long, exhale moves you directly into that space. The deeper you breathe, the more opens up. It's like opening a door and walking through with each breath. The fuller your breaths the more and more doors open on up, leaving you with the space to walk on in! — Tara Stiles

The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy. — Stanley Ho

Fruit does not make a tree good. Fruit does not give life. Fruit is a sign of life and reality. — John Piper

It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair. — India.Arie

Daughter, remember in this life you will have trouble — Karen Kingsbury

If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine. — C.D. Wright

It had come from one of two corgis who were even now slamming their preposterous bodies into each other not far away, trying to roll each other over, which runs contrary to the laws of mechanics even in the case of corgis that are lean and trim, which these were not.

This struggle, which appeared to be only one skirmish in a conflict of epochal standing, had driven all lesser considerations, such as guarding the gate, from the combatants' sphere of attention... — Neal Stephenson

Not of exhaustion, but surrender, as though he had given over and relinquished completely that grip upon that blending of pride and hope and vanity and fear, that strength to cling to either defeat or victory, which is the I-Am, and the relinquishment of which is usually death. — William Faulkner