Graziellas Plainfield Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area set the stage for all of my comedic and acting sensibilities. — Ryan McPartlin

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops. — Winston Graham

Writing ... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are. — Margaret Atwood

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live. — Isabel Allende

Almost every organization ... exhibits two faces a smiling face which it turns toward its members and a frowning face which it turns to the world outside. — Kenneth E. Boulding

It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted! — Isaac D'Israeli

The chemicals that are running our body and our brain are the same chemicals that are involved in emotion. And that says to me that ... wed better pay more attention to emotions with respect to health. — Candace Pert

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people. — Giles Foden

All my life the people I have loved - Ilsa, Cousin Anna, Silver, Myra Turnbull, Joshua Tisbury - have accepted me as a friend, have confided in me - but, somehow, there has been no actual contact made. It has been almost as though they could talk to me because I didn't exist. I think that's because there has been no give and take. I have a pitcher into which the people I love have poured themselves. I have accepted everything and been allowed to give nothing. When they discover that I have passions of my own it seems to jar them. In — Madeleine L'Engle