Farces Poisson Quotes & Sayings

I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg. — Viggo Mortensen

Friends don't always make the best of business partners. — Chris Campbell

On a frosty winter afternoon, I rode in sight of Thornfield Hall. On a stile in Hay Lane I saw a quiet little figure sitting by itself. I had no presentiment of what it would be to me; no inward warning that the arbitress of my life
my genius for good or evil
waited there in humble guise.
When once I had pressed the frail shoulder, something new
a fresh sap and sense
stole into my frame. It was well I had learnt that this elf must return to me
that it belonged to my house down below- -or I could not have felt it pass away from under my hand, and seen it vanish behind the dim hedge, without singular regret. I heard you come home that night, Jane, though probably you were not aware that I thought of you or watched for you. — Charlotte Bronte

The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks. — Evan Osnos

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. — Benjamin Disraeli

Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs. — Cassandra Clare

The marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot. — Anne Sexton

As soon as you're sure you're right, there's no point in your being here. — Neal Stephenson

We are trying to enable anyone in the world to be their own educational DJ, creating educational materials, sharing them with the world, constantly innovating on them. — Richard Baraniuk

Many things might have caused pain this year. The good thing is that we would not have felt them if we weren't alive. Thankful that I'm alive! — Assegid Habtewold

Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books. — Richard Peck

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence. — Jean-Paul Sartre

When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration. — Constantin Stanislavski

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving. — William Penn