Fierstein Obituary Quotes & Sayings

In terms of trying to improve as an actor, for me it's always important to return to the stage. After doing a piece of theater for a prolonged period, I can think I must have surely improved in some way as an actor - you must be fitter than you were prior to doing it. For me, theater is very, very important in keeping things fresh and dangerous. — Cillian Murphy

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms. — Jodi Picoult

You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward. — Woody Hayes

How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe. — Sy Safransky

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things. — Jackson Browne

That's right," she said softly, watching. "It's not everyone can go through the stones, is it? Why us? — Diana Gabaldon

The Brit's face shares a heritage with a junkyard butt-sniffing mutt. It's a hard-earned moonshine mug, dotted with a hairy mole that looks like a rat's been gnawing on it. His beard looks like a white sneeze. The teeth are jagged and out of alignment, having opened quarts at Jiffy Quick Lube for half a decade. — Brett Tate

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness. — Lucinda Williams

People often mistake New Yorkers for rude and mean, but they're really just no-nonsense and efficient. They don't have time, regularly, to be warm and friendly with everyone who crosses their path. Nothing would ever get done. But when the chips are down, when it matters, they drop their cool exteriors and become unabashedly human. — Sari Botton

To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and ... though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. — Thomas Carlyle

I remember how amazing it felt to be loved by him and how he was all I ever wanted. — Siobhan Davis

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life. — Sting