Hassocks And Footstools Quotes & Sayings

Nevertheless, vanity and conceit are defects from which scarcely any convict is exempt. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nudity ... I have to say I will never do it again. — Moira Kelly

People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.' — Richard Simmons

Throughout all ranks of society, from the successful merchant, which is the highest, to the domestic serving man, which is the lowest, they are all too actively employed to read, except at such broken moments as may suffice for a peep at a newspaper. It is for this reason, I presume, that every American newspaper is more or less a magazine ... — Frances Trollope

Therefore, when we find our heart inflamed with love to God, we may know that God hath shined upon our souls in the pardon of sin; and proportionally to our measure of love is our assurance of pardon. Therefore we should labour for a greater measure thereof, that our hearts may be the more inflamed in the love of God. — Richard Sibbes

I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don't know what that event will be. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Women try to be the best everywhere, and it's impossible. I want my clothes to give women the freedom to just be - I want them to put on my dresses and shine. — Alber Elbaz

A hungry stomach cannot hear. — Jean De La Fontaine

There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song. — Scarlett Johansson

She has never messed up a single take yet. Recently I was in a scene and there was a table covered with a cloth. When the director said cut, I saw a black nose and two paws inching out from under the cloth. She had hidden there without making a sound until we were done with the scene. She wanted to be nearer to me. — Jack Lemmon

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons. — Pythagoras

Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad?)? Often, I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Humans were built to look back; that's why we have tat swivel joint in our necks. — Stephen King

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. — Lawrence Clark Powell

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. — Ransom Riggs

I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things. — Phil Keoghan