Cadfael The Holy Thief Quotes & Sayings

I'd just love to have an audience and it's the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors. — Sara Gilbert

If I'm in a gathering of filmmakers, I'm first and foremost a British Indian; if I'm in a gathering of British Indians, I'm a woman director. There are so many sides to who I am that I change all the time. — Gurinder Chadha

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood. — Ernest Bramah

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. — Alfred North Whitehead

It was called 'We Wear the Mask', by Paul Laurence Dunbar. I transcribed the first stanza and then started jotting down my reaction to it.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, -
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

I used to wear masks so subtle I barely noticed them. A compliment to my mother after a dismal meal, a smile at my best friend when she sang out of tune, a forced laugh at my uncle's bad jokes. I wore small masks that came and went, like fleeting expressions.

I am stuck inside the mask I wear now. I want to rip it off. I want to show my scars to the world, to unveil the ugliness that breathes inside me. I want to be unashamed. I want to be unafraid. But every day the mask gets tighter, and I suffocate a little more.

I stopped writing. — Catherine Doyle

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation. — Lord Chesterfield

Is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ... the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. — Thomas Jefferson

The winner of the Westminster Dog Show gets to drink champagne - out of the toilet. — David Letterman

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. — Jean Giraudoux

The excess of all good things is mischievous. — Lydia M. Child

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far. — Greg Boyle

When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore ... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.' — Mandy Moore

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition. — Jean Cocteau

I want to die, even though I don't have to. — Epictetus