Detectible Quotes & Sayings

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible. — Olivia Thirlby

Man is a thought-adventurer. — D.H. Lawrence

I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it! — Rachael Ray

My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know. — Christopher Lee

Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free. — Paul Simon

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement. — Matt Biondi

The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded. — Frederick William Borden

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! — Earl Nightingale

Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division? — Ronald Reagan

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are. — Martin Puryear

I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance. — David Foster

Things last so much longer than people. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat. — Nikki Rowe

As a reader, you're often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they're feeling, even if they can't exactly say it, or they say it so obliquely that the other characters don't catch it. Readers are frequently reminded of the gulf between what people say and what they mean, and such moments prod us to become more attuned to gesture, tone, and language. — Will Schwalbe

And finally that I tend to regard marriage as a promise: the error is not in not keeping it but in making it. — Gordon Sheppard