Devilles Pharmacy Quotes & Sayings

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches. — Horace

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.' — James Surowiecki

... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's for the audience, not for you! And what it means to you is something emotional [...] If you went to the Actors Studio you'd spend six months seeing the snow before you could say, 'Look at the snow.' This takes a terrible burden away from the actor, who thinks he's got to see the woods and the snow. 'Give me my gun! I see a rabbit! Give me my gun!' "

Meisner sounds thrilled at the possibility of a hunt.

"That happens when you're still sitting there reading. Then when they put in the scenery you move to the window. Isn't that simple? How simple it is to solve the problem of seeing things when you know that it's all in you emotionally, and that walking to the window is only a convention. — Sanford Meisner

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. — Nicolas Chamfort

In the November 2006 issue of Science, a report by an international team of scientists studying a vast amount of data gathered between 1950 and 2003 declared that if current trends of fishing and pollution continue, every fishery in the world's oceans will collapse by 2048 ... The oceans as an ecosystem would completely collapse. — Peter Heller

And on every rooftop stood unimaginably tall television antennae. These silver feelers groped about in the air, in defiance of the mountains that formed a backdrop to the town. — Haruki Murakami

After all, they were just words, and she had learned long ago that a man's actions displayed his truer nature more than the things he said. — Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better. — Kate Williams

Elections are rarely perfect. — Richard Holbrooke