Imelda Shanklin Quotes & Sayings

In our hallway, ablaze with welcoming lights, my Lolita peeled off her sweater, shook her gemmed hair, stretched towards me two bare arms, raised one knee:
"Carry me upstairs, please. I feel sort of romantic tonight."
It may interest physiologists to learn, at this point, that I have the ability - a most singular case, I presume - of shedding torrents of tears throughout the other tempest. — Vladimir Nabokov

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing. — Alan Rickman

Was he nice? He didn't know. He hoped he was, but how many of us truly know? — John Irving

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is. — Lynn Jennings

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time. — M. Ward

I call it relief, though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation. It was at least change, and it came with a rush. — Henry James

Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend. — Emily Giffin

I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming ... and a little mad. — Alfred North Whitehead

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it's never done. — Ernest Hemingway,

Art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. — Robert Adams

The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks. — Dizzy Dean

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people. — Chuck Palahniuk

Because there's no formal etiquette for ending a friendship, most people do it in the laziest, most passive and painless way possible, by unilaterally dropping any effort to sustain it and letting the other person figure it out for themselves. (I — Tim Kreider