Fundus Quotes & Sayings

The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest. — Lisette Model

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time. — Daniel Barenboim

I thought then that we would all die in the darkness and solitude. I thought that an executioner would come for us silently one night. I thought I might wake briefly with the weight of a pillow on my face. I thought that I would never see sunshine again. I was a young woman then, and I thought that sorrow as deep as mine could only lead to death. I was grieving for my father and frightened by the absence of my brothers, and I thought that soon I would die too. I — Philippa Gregory

I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting? — Dora Russell

If you have a big enough WHY, you will always figure out the HOW. — Logan Christopher

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment. — Ashley Judd

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy. — Joan Rivers

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending. — Robert W. Service

To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting. — Ian McDiarmid

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking? — Mark Twain

The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes. — T. Colin Campbell

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity. — Johan Huizinga

In normal situations, feeling annoyed is one's choice. — Toba Beta

We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments ... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor's footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master's, although it is but his own. — George MacDonald