Claroscuro Quotes & Sayings

Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed. — Andrew Buchan

Personal power is the ability to enter into different planes of reality. — Frederick Lenz

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. — John Weitz

Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time. — Brenda Ueland

There was really nothing pressing for me to do beyond pouring bubble bath in the fountain at City Hall. — Debra Dunbar

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time. If there's anything going, and I put in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: "You're undeserving; so you can't have it." Buy my needs is as great as the most deserving widow's that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. I don't need less than a deserving man: I need more. I don't eat less hearty than him; and I drink a lot more. I want a bit of amusement, cause I'm a thinking man. I want cheerfulness and a song and a band when I feel low. Well, they charge me just the same for everything as they charge the deserving. What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything. — George Bernard Shaw

What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value. — Cory Booker

That's all there is; there isn't any more. — Ethel Barrymore

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value. — Brent Weeks

Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore. — Halle Berry

I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine. — Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark

Happy wife, happy life. — Paul Orfalea

The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward. — Mark Twain

The endless repetition of an ordinary miracle. — Orhan Pamuk