Doubleday Quotes & Sayings

The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow. — Richard Jefferies

My sister basically showed me how to be a person for many years of my life. I just didn't really fit anywhere, and my sister was always really comfortable in who she was. — Portia Doubleday

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona. — Letitia Baldrige

That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage. — Peter Greenaway

I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones. — Kaitlin Doubleday

The honest truth is - and I have felt this way forever - is my largest competitor is myself. Always. I am intimidated by my own hang-ups about acting more so than anything, any part, any director. — Portia Doubleday

I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time. — Portia Doubleday

There is no pleasure in this world like the company of friends," said the Mouse, "and no pain like losing them. — Simon R. Doubleday

Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick. — Jim Bouton

Few persons appreciate the steadiness and courage required, when all around is in flight and confusion, for a force to advance steadily to the post of danger in front and meet the exulting enemy. Such men are heroes, and far more worthy of honor than those who fight in the full blaze of successful warfare. — Abner Doubleday

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. — Augusten Burroughs

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket. — Henry Chadwick

It's not four days ago I find a bastard squatting here, asking me if I read books. Like he would jump me with a book or something. Take me for a ride with the telephone directory. — William Faulkner

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you. — Guy Lafleur

Failure is not important, how you overcome it is. — Nick Vujicic

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business. — Portia Doubleday

Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types. — Kaitlin Doubleday

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War. — Branch Rickey

I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy. — Portia Doubleday

Out of perverseness, I jumped on the subway and went down to a sound stage on Fourth Street to watch the shooting of Kay Doubleday's big strip scene in Mad Dog Coll, a gangster film that can still, to my embarrassment, be seen occasionally on late-night TV... Kay Doubleday was in my class at Lee Strasberg's; it was in the interest of art, I told myself, to watch her prance down a ramp, singing and stripping her heart out. — Brooke Hayward

If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback. — Portia Doubleday

I was 18 years old when I booked 'Youth in Revolt,' and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie - and even then, I didn't feel like I had made it. — Portia Doubleday

I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other hand, I had noticed that baseball announcers seemed to go right on forever. Bob Elson has been calling balls and strikes since the beginning of time. Harry Caray must have started with Abner Doubleday, and was still going strong. — Lindsey Nelson

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal. — Portia Doubleday

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road. — Karen Blixen

What sort of ideas, I wondered, might help to give meaning to life when one is in the midst of fundamentalist persons of all kinds who believe that they have a monopoly on truth and some are even willing to kill to prove that? — Gurcharan Das

I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business. — Portia Doubleday

I guess rebelliousness has been explored in many movies, but what about the smart kids' rebellion? Not just the motorcycle jackets and that kind of rebellion; it's the dorky kid - what could he do? — Portia Doubleday

Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They weren't wanting to necessarily support an acting career; it's a really fickle business, and it can be difficult and unstable. They were rooting for education and the whole nine yards. — Portia Doubleday

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent. — Mitch Horowitz

They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind. — John Grisham

I don't understand what's happening in 'Mr. Robot' all the time, and I'm really actually intimated for the second season. I'll have to rewatch the first season, I think. — Portia Doubleday

Out with it, Tarrou! What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?"
"I don't know. My code of morals, perhaps."
"Your code of morals? What code?"
"Comprehension."
Camus, Albert (2012-08-08). The Plague (Vintage International) (Kindle Locations 1767-1769). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. — Albert Camus

My favorite thing about this business is you're just jammed in a room on a set with like-minded people - writers, directors, and art designers and hairdressers. People who didn't work a 9-to-5 but chose this life. You're going to like at least two or three people in that you love these people so much. — Kaitlin Doubleday

The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that. — Kaitlin Doubleday