Goedecke Springfield Quotes & Sayings

Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?' — Christopher Lee

I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first. — Sarah Hall

But a girl always knows. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Sommerfeld's fine-structure theory was generally considered to be excellently and unambiguously confirmed by experiment. Because the theory rested on the foundation provided by Bohr, the experiments were also taken as strong support for his theory of atomic structure. — Helge Kragh

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated. — Elizabeth Keckley

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. — St. Jerome

There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word. He wasn't a fraud. He was Robert De Niro. — Nick Hornby

Bad pony-men! BOO! — Rick Riordan

I'm mixed on figs. The fleshy quality feels spooky. In Italian, il fico, fig, has a slangy turn into la fica, meaning vulva. Possibly because of the famous fig leaf exodus from Eden, it seems like the most ancient of fruits. Oddest, too - the fig flower is inside the fruit. To pull one open is to look into a complex, primitive, infinitely sophisticated life cycle tableau. — Frances Mayes

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs. — David Gelernter

Plants turn their face to the Sun; Animals, to the ground; and Men, to the darkness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

God's word is alive, so full of spiritual truth and wisdom that even a single passage can be digested for a lifetime — Charles F. Stanley

Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread. — Hilda Doolittle

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish. — Tamora Pierce