Etajere Carti Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways. — Laurie Lee

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything. — Mark Twain

Who was there to soothe him as life's rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet? — Markus Zusak

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it. — Gary Oldman

I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be. — Leonardo DiCaprio

So popular is alliteration that in the 1960s it actually made a grab for political power. In the 1960s a vast radical youth movement began campaigning to do things for the sole reason that they began with the same letter. Ban the bomb. Burn your bra. Power to the people. For a moment there it seemed as though alliteration would change the world. But then the spirit of idealism faded and those who had manned the barricades went off and got jobs in marketing. — Mark Forsyth

Her attention remained divided between the page in her hand and, fifty feet away, the closed bedroom door. — Ian McEwan

I don't yearn to be a child again. — Loretta Young

Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her. — Frank Zappa

When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain. — Nikita Dudani

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving — Marianne Williamson

The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power. — Anna Garlin Spencer

The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon. — Arlen Specter