Cross Creek Movie Quotes & Sayings

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. — Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

He was convinced that public service and private misery were inextricably linked. — John Ferling

Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play. — Lee Trevino

Optimism is lack of information. — Faina Ranevskaya

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519 — Robert Greene

Under loves heavy burden do I sink.
--Romeo — William Shakespeare

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite. — Bobby Orr

Rich dad said it this way, 'Big people have big dreams and small people have small dreams. If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dreams.' — Robert Kiyosaki

A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it's over. Be pleasant but don't smile too much; be sad but don't overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don't let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, finger-pointing, tears, snot, and screaming. — Cecelia Ahern

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. — Michael Haneke

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back. — Sting

Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our storyline into the annuals of time. To endure a mortal life is merely a transitory experience whereas writing about how one lived is an internalized exposition of what it means to be human. Writing is an external exhibition injecting the author into the world's consciousness. — Kilroy J. Oldster