Count Belisarius Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen. — Alice Hoffman

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary. — Marilyn Manson

The Great Frost was, historians tell us, the most severe that has ever visited these islands. Birds froze in mid-air and fell like stones to the ground. At Norwich a young countrywoman started to cross the road in her usual robust health and was seen by onlookers to turn visibly to powder and be blown in a puff of dust over the roofs as the icy blast struck her at the street corner. — Virginia Woolf

[Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff. — Roxanne Roberts

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good. — Henry Fielding

What is a woman to me? The answer must be: A projection. Who is projecting, and for what reason, I cannot necessarily know from the performance itself. Mr. Umewaka and Mr. Mikata do not when playing their feminine roles feel themselves to be women; they strive, as I so often in my wonderment repeat, to be nothing; yet when they enact women I see them as women. Meanwhile the psyche within a male body which mechanically performs itself as such may see itself as female — William T. Vollmann

Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music. — David Ruffin

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness. — Saint John Chrysostom

I'll tell them you're insane but being responsible about it." "Thanks, Alex. — Seanan McGuire

The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere. — Linda Ronstadt

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where? — Nancy Sinatra

All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction... — John Julius Norwich

Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new — Pam Brown

You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powerful story. You go, 'Man, I have to play a bad character in this.' And then you go, 'Well, do I want to play a bad character and contribute to a good story?' — Paul Dano