Demetris Edmonds Quotes & Sayings

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you. — Genevieve Bujold

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty. — Angelina Grimke

Did she think ginger cookies a substitute for impassioned longings and mad, wild, glamorous adventures? — L.M. Montgomery

My knowledge of Mr. Forster's works is limited to one novel which I dislike; and anyway it was not he who fathered that trite little whimsy about characters getting out of hand; it is as old as the quills, although of course one sympathizes with his people if they try to wriggle out of that trip to India or whereever he takes them. My characters are galley slaves. — Vladimir Nabokov

In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single homogeneous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of written language. — Italo Calvino

Love at first sight is a myth, but thundering sexual attraction at first sight is hard science. — Daryl Gregory

Celebrate your own
special spirit
fly on the wings
of your secret dreams — Laurel Burch

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education. — Clyde Tombaugh

People who make mistakes are in the best position to make better choices. — Sarah Noffke

.. how history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws. — Arundhati Roy

In you, we have given this world a great gift - and of that, I have no doubt. — Guillermo Del Toro

I couldn't sew on a day like this. There's something in the air that gets in the blood and makes a sort of glory in my soul. My fingers would twitch and I'd sew a crooked seam. So it's ho for the park and the pines. — L.M. Montgomery

Ah! there is a man who justifies the wit who insisted that one ought never to know an author except through his books. — Marcel Proust

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence. — Stephen Hadley