Identifications Des Quotes & Sayings

Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. — Nikos Kazantzakis

It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting. — Paula Poundstone

It is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free. — Dale Evans

Love is a power which produces love. — Erich Fromm

We must cultivate our heads. But nurture our hearts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail. — W. Somerset Maugham

He was still looking steadily at her. His eyes were clear, cool and hard, but something in the depths of them flickered and shifted. She thought: 'He'd take any advantage he could
fair or unfair. Caddish he is.' Then as she stared back at him she felt a great longing to put her head on his knees and shut her eyes. To stop thinking. Stop the little wheels in her head that worked incessantly. To give in and have a little peace. The unutterably sweet peace of giving in. — Jean Rhys

It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by. — Martha Graham

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe. — Helen Mirren

I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!' — Sampha

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure. — Sebastian Bach

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney. — Aisha Tyler

What in the world would we do without our libraries? — Katharine Hepburn

The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is. — Lucy Liu