Izquierdo In English Quotes & Sayings

When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself. — Anne Hathaway

Mr. S was finally retiring this year, which was a good thing, because he appeared to have run out of shits to give sometime in the previous century. — Ernest Cline

My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it ... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes. — DMX

Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product. — Manoj Bhargava

Mediocrity has nothing to do with how you compare to other people; it's simply a result of not making the commitment to continuously learn, grow, and improve yourself. — Hal Elrod

Bad things happen to everyone. Not that this was an excuse or a justification for wronging another human being. Still, all humans had this shared experience - that of suffering. No human being left this world without shedding a tear, or feeling pain, or wading into the sea of sorrow. — Sylvain Reynard

Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality. — Russell M. Nelson

Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God. — James Bryant Conant

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing. — Phyllis A. Whitney

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore. — Angelique Kidjo

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line. — Carrie Fisher

A man can be 43, and people will say, 'Oh, he's a cool bachelor, and he just hasn't settled down,' but with a woman, it's, 'Oh, she must have really wanted to get married, but she didn't.' I honestly think that attitude is a little bit sexist. — Heather Graham

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. — Peter Murphy