Dekimpe Raymond Quotes & Sayings

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady. — Rena Sofer

Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is
if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing. — Truman Capote

Race matters, and it matters most in those moments when we wish it didn't matter at all. — Terra Trevor

We want to do something with the time we have, something that will give that time a certain meaning, a certain weight. — Robert Goolrick

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy? — Rick Perlstein

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. — Judith Viorst

My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds of our friends and neighbors gathered in the elementary school gym on that Sunday afternoon, despite an ugly Maine snowstorm. They listened to the thoughtful searching debates and saw us cast our votes. How could anyone suggest we didn't know exactly what we were doing? 'What's the point of electing someone who doesn't believe in the American people?' they asked. 'If she wants to ignore us now when she's only a candidate, what will she do as the President?' — Shoshana Zuboff

It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens. — Pankaj Mishra

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value. — Ben Greenman

Nasty little dragon. It wouldn't happen again. He was St George and he would slay the dragon. That was how it worked, wasn't it? He knew the story. He was a hero, a patron saint. He was England. This country was his. His people were marching towards him from all corners. He would take his throne. But first he had to destroy the dragon. He would butcher him like a piece of meat; a long pig, that's all he was: cutlets, chops, ribs and chitterlings. He would make sausages out of him, ha, because in the end he was nothing more than a side of pork ... No, smaller than that. He was just a lamb. A leg of lamb. Yes. He would slaughter the lamb. — Charlie Higson

Everything," a journalist observed, "tended to represent the home of a man who has battled hard with the fortunes of life, and whose hard experience had taught him to enjoy whatever of success belongs to him, rather in solid substance than in showy display. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world! — Frances Wright

But as fast as geography is coming under our control, the clock is exerting more and more tyranny over us. — Pico Iyer

As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant. — David Morrell