Born Before 1954 Quotes & Sayings

What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character. — Daisy Ridley

You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control. — Denis Leary

One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth. — Adrienne Rich

For when we read, don't we summon the past into the present? Hold out our hand and invite an author to sit with us for a time? — Ari Berk

the spread of consumer technology has given the traffickers a boost and helped them keep the edge over their pursuers. — Moises Naim

Are you always this wise, Ruth?"
"Only when it comes to other people's lives. — Paula McLain

I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence. — Hafez

It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever ... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls. — Robert Farrar Capon

They stand close for a while, not touching, but breathing each other's breath. The city is silent now, as if for peace. — Helen Dunmore

I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off. — Anjelica Huston

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true. — James Branch Cabell

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort. — Thomas Carlyle

I didn't want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad. — Robin McKinley

A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed. — Joseph John Thomson

He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...] — Evelyn Waugh