Quotes & Sayings About Hester Being A Seamstress

(On period costume posture coaching
We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out. — Emma Thompson

One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment to our descendants, is the doctrine which is founded upon this triple hypothesis: the radical passiveness of mankind, - the omnipotence of the law, - the infallibility of the legislator: this is the sacred symbol of the party that proclaims itself exclusively democratic. — Frederic Bastiat

Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied. — Gregory Galloway

My weapon against the world is another vision of the world. — Jorge Teillier

There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet. — Susan Cain

I'm not hungry!' A human voice, but with a sulky whine in it that suggested that its owner had been given too many sweets when he was young and not enough shoutings-at. It was the kind of voice that's used to having its life with the crusts cut off. — Terry Pratchett

When had his heart ever felt this full? There were no words. That was the problem. He loved her with speechlessness. — Sondra Kraak

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia. — Tim Robbins

I want to look good when people see me. — Christina Aguilera

God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it — Catherine Booth

Another time, another place, I'd back you to that wall right there, or any place you wanted to go, and do everything in my power to wipe him from your mind. — Jennifer St. Giles

A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write. — Dermott Hayes

I've been in love often enough to be completely exhausted by it, and not to know what it means any more. When you look back afterwards, you can always find another way of putting it. You say, "I was obsessed, it was really lust, I was fooling myself," because after you've recovered from being in love, you always decide that that wasn't what it was. — Louis De Bernieres

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage. — Henri Matisse

Writing has never been that simple for me. — Pat Conroy