Casebeer Sons Quotes & Sayings

The other men were easy to talk to, but they didn't know anything. If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes. — Larry McMurtry

New exit, new entry! — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training. — Brenda Blethyn

If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere. — Robin Hobb

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too. — Steven Pinker

The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees. — William Howard Taft

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime. — Jami Attenberg

The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has changed, don't we? The Book of Mormon tells us that; and he has a dark skin, but he has promise there that through faithfulness, that they all again become a white and delightsome people. — LeGrand Richards

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films. — Woody Allen

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away. — Richard Cobden

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it. — Scilla Elworthy

Every writer knows that ideas are the enemy. — Marty Rubin

Oh, who could have foretold That the heart grows old? — W.B.Yeats

Then he asked my age and I asked his. That's the tradition in China. If we know each other's ages we can understand each other's past. We Chinese have been collective for so long, personal histories are not worth mentioning. Therefore as soon as Xiaolin and I knew how old the other was, we knew exactly what big shit had happened in our lives. The introduction of the One Child Policy shortly before out births, for instance and the fact that, in 1985, two pandas were sent to the USA as a national gift and we had to sing a tearful panda song at school. 1989 was the Tiananmen Square student demonstration. Anyway, Xiaolin was one year younger than me, so I assumed we were from the same generation. — Xiaolu Guo