Diandras Quotes & Sayings

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. — Homer

We all, like Frodo, carry a Quest, a Task: our daily duties. They come to us, not from us. We are free only to accept or refuse our task- and, implicitly, our Taskmaster. None of us is a free creator or designer of his own life. "None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself" (Rom 14:7). Either God, or fate, or meaningless chance has laid upon each of us a Task, a Quest, which we would not have chosen for ourselves. We are all Hobbits who love our Shire, or security, our creature comforts, whether these are pipeweed, mushrooms, five meals a day, and local gossip, or Starbucks coffees, recreational sex, and politics. But something, some authority not named in The Lord of the Rings (but named in the Silmarillion), has decreed that a Quest should interrupt this delightful Epicurean garden and send us on an odyssey. We are plucked out of our Hobbit holes and plunked down onto a Road. — Peter Kreeft

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that. — John Sharp

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. — Al Boliska

I'm Scottish. My idea of foreplay is roll over, Margaret. — Andrea Speed

Dating a man is like flying a kite. You only need to know when to wind up the string or let it out. — Jenna Alatari

Women have to ask for higher paychecks. And not equal, I don't want equal - why do I have to have the same paycheck as a guy who has much less experience than me? I want more. And we have to stop feeling ashamed for asking for more, and we have to begin to feel a little more entitled to things, to normal things. — Isabel Coixet

I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that. — Tony Gilroy

I also think one of the things that's really hurting us is political activism of any stripe. Michael Jordan had it exactly right, he was my idol - when he was asked about a political question at one point and he said I'm not going to answer it, and they said why not, and he said: Because Republicans buy gym shoes too, right? That doesn't exist anymore, that kind of smarts. — Edward Allen Bernero

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now? — Dick Cavett