Hablante Quotes & Sayings

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.' — Steve Carell

The feeling that someone owes us something, the pain for the harm that others caused us, etc., stops the inner progress of the soul. — Samael Aun Weor

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them. — Glen Duncan

Mam drove the same way she walked, freestyle, also known as bumpily. She didn't really go in for right- and left-hand lanes, which was fine this side of Faha where the road is cart-wide and Mohawked with a raised rib of grass and when two cars meet there is no hope of passing, someone has to throw back a left arm and reverse to the nearest gap or gate, which Faha folks do brilliantly, flooring the accelerator and racing in soft zigzag to where they have just been, defeating time and space both and making a nonsense of past and present, here and there. As any student of Irish history ancient and recent will know, we are a nation of magnificent reversers. — Niall Williams

I read an article about Nirvana on one visit, and it didn't have any references to honey mustard dressing or lettuce. They kept talking about the singer's stomach problems all the time, though. It was weird. — Stephen Chbosky

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad. — Fantasia Barrino

The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself. — Joseph Campbell

How plotless real life was! — Anne Tyler

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer. — E. Stanley Jones

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity. — Gregory Bateson

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. — Alfred Hitchcock

Your children teach you so much. It's a real mirror of yourself. — Kate Hudson

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. — Caleb Cushing

Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career. — Gail Sheehy

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball. — Christine Lagarde