Halysidota Quotes & Sayings

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. — Gustave Flaubert

Genius is full of trash. — Herman Melville

Affectation of candour is common enough - one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design - to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad - belongs to you alone. — Jane Austen

I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk. — Michael Keaton

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy. — Will Smith

Emma is the engine of this home, the person who propels it forward, keeps everyone fed and clothed and healthy and happy - and yet she's entirely alone within it, and getting lonelier with every item ticked off her checklist. This is what it comes down to: the flat-out invisible drudgery of family maintenance, the vanishing of personality as everyone else's accrues. — Harriet Lane