Escutcheon Plate Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. — Angela Davis

When you are miserable, stressed, doubtful and fearful you are in control. When you are happy, peaceful, confident and faithful God is in control. — Toni Sorenson

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world. — John C. Reilly

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones. — Vera Farmiga

I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage. — Bill Hader

But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would *be* their lives. — Michael Chabon

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents. — Roald Dahl

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems. — Francis Brett Young

As you grew up, when you were grown, totally unknown to yourself, you confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man's heart, and a man's failings - I'll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes 'em like all of us. — Harper Lee

In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight. — Charles Dickens

Gilda: How severe is the corporal punishment here?
Mrs. McCracken: Honey, nobody's going to spank you here. Don't worry. — Jennifer Allison

No glass ceiling was ever shattered by a whiner. — Melanie Hope

But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery. — Irene Dunne