Ironweed Quotes & Sayings

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement. — Peter Beinart

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. — Daniel Webster

The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou. — P.J. Parker

There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together. — Whoopi Goldberg

The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them. — Timothy West

Getting your first review is like getting your teeth whitened. You hope it doesn't hurt as much as they say on the internet and you also hope it will leave you with a blinding smile. — Kathy Parks

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own. — John Wesley

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts. — Cochise "Like Ironweed"

I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera. — Ruth Bernhard

We are immortal till our work is done. — George Whitefield

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day. — Randall Jarrell

We've done very different Yes albums - 11 bars, 13. I think we had something that had 17/4 in it. It's just like anything - the more you do it, the more you have to do it. — Chris Squire

Love's very pain is sweet,
But its reward is in the world divine
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Heart's wave could not curl and break beautifully into the foam of spirit, unless the ageless silent rock of destiny stood in its path. — Holderlin

Carl sat musing until the sun leaped above the prairie, and in the grass about him all the small creatures of day began to tune their tiny instruments. Birds and insects without number began to chirp, to twitter, to snap and whistle, to make all manner of fresh shrill noises. The pasture was flooded with light; every clump of ironweed and snow-on-the-mountain threw a long shadow, and the golden light seemed to be rippling through the curly grass like the tide racing in. — Willa Cather

Too often Christians today have only two gears on their theological bike: essential and unimportant. If something is not essential for salvation, it is treated as unimportant and therefore dismissable. But the Bible presents us with a number of matters that are not essential for salvation but which nonetheless are important, even necessary, for obedience to God's Word. — Mark Dever

Sometimes filming can be grueling when you're shooting the same scene for a week, or you're sitting around for 7 hours a day. They sound like very first-world champagne problems. I don't mean to sound like life is so hard, but filming sometimes is tougher than other times. — Jai Courtney