Famous Alec Guinness Quotes & Sayings

You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort. — Charlotte Sophia Kasl

I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again. — David Koechner

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others. — Bill Vaughan

How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here. — Donald Murray

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. — Jim Rohn

I didn't see many films until I was in college teaching. — Wes Craven

There neither is nor ever will be a treatise of mine on the subject. For it does not admit of exposition like other branches of knowledge; but after much converse about the matter itself and a life lived together, suddenly a light, as it were, is kindled in one soul by a flame that leaps to it from another, and thereafter sustains itself. — Plato

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Isn't the best bit of truth always woven in with a lie? — Rachel E. Carter

Each day, each moment
is a step into the unknown.
How can we feel anything
but amazement? — Ivan M. Granger

Nobody's home. Don't answer the door during working hours unless you're waiting for a special delivery. Use a peephole if you need to know. — Eileen Roth

And don't try to sell me any crap about the kindly demon. I know three of you now, and you are all evil, insane, or just plain nasty. — Kim Harrison