Billiam Mask Quotes & Sayings

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have. — Peter Blair Henry

I don't think that I am happy,
but then again, I don't know.
Sometimes I get so caught up
in the process of living--
of eating, dressing, taking the train to work,
that I don't give it enough thought.
Maybe happiness is being content.
But is it really? — Samantha Schutz

I've always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure. — Viola Davis

My name, it's Elizabeth. And I assure you, I'm no tart. — E.K. Blair

Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up. — Barry Hannah

if our style of looking becomes beautiful, then beauty will become visible and shine forth for us. We will be surprised to discover beauty in unexpected places where the ungraceful eye would never linger. The graced eye can glimpse beauty anywhere, for beauty does not reserve itself for special elite moments or instances; it does not wait for perfection but is present already secretly in everything. When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary. — John O'Donohue

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap. — Jeanette Winterson

I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best. — Edward Burtynsky

You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End. — Jeff Kinney

I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more filmmakers. These exhibition and distribution companies are huge, and there might be incentives for them to invest more in Mexican cinema. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul. — Douglas MacArthur

Well, that's because they're wrong and I'm right. No more reading for you. Let's go get some ice cream."
"I don't know if the kitchen has any," Joel said. "It's hard to get in the summers, and - "
"Not from the kitchen, stupid," Melody said, rolling her eyes. "From the parlor out on Knight Street."
"Oh. I've ... never been there."
"What! That's a tragedy."
"Melody, everything is a tragedy to you."
"Not having ice cream," she proclaimed, "is the culmination of all disasters! That's it. No more discussion. We're going. Follow. — Brandon Sanderson