Cousin Kate Poem Quotes & Sayings

Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends. — Mark Strickson

There was a young man of Herne Bay
who was making some fireworks one day:
but he dropped his cigar
in the gunpowder jar.
There was a young man of Herne Bay. — Ogden Nash

The falseness of the seventeenth century became a large measure of the truth by the nineteenth. Money made the man, or at least went a long way toward doing so; and death became the occasion for a final accounting, a stocktaking of worldly success. Of course, there were other metrics: virtue, martyrdom, political standing, fraternal ties. But it took money to publicize them. The funeral became more and more a standardized commodity whose cost could be matched with exquisite precision to the class and degree of 'respectability' of the deceased. When one bought a funeral, one bought a more or less splendid parade, each additional bauble, each horse, each feather or set of nails adding to the base price. Bit by bit, finery accumulated, and by looking at the account books of an undertaker who specialized in pauper funerals, we can begin to see the bounds of decency in death. — Thomas W. Laqueur

To understand everything is to forgive everything. — Gautama Buddha

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright. — N.K. Jemisin

You'll fight with each other, of course, but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake. — David Eddings

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever. — Kathy Acker

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. — Berthe Morisot

I don't know how I didn't kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were making, I made my own harness for my sister. I wrapped her in all these ropes, but then also put a noose around her neck and hung her from a tree. Now I think, 'What if my harness didn't work?' I'm so lucky that nothing ever happened. — Alexa Vega

and in that case the "primitive" belief - found throughout the ancient and pagan world - that God exists in every blade of grass, every creature, and even the earth and sky, may contain the highest truth. Arriving at that truth is the purpose of spiritual life, and each stage of God takes us on a journey whose end point is total clarity, a sense of peace that nothing can disturb. — Deepak Chopra

When we seek to understand what makes each of us different before we seek to be understood, we learn. Understanding fosters mutual respect for one another. — D'Andre Lampkin

And yet I loved her still, or would have loved her if I could. — Gene Wolfe