Joreta Lyerly Quotes & Sayings

The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost. — Jessica Raine

The implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself, consisting of the soul's slow agonizing descent into a state of such loneliness and despair as to be finally indistinguishable from Hell. — William Shakespeare

In that moment, I wish I could see it through his eyes. I wish he had glasses to give me. — Jennifer Niven

Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins. — Lionel Tiger

I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be. — Roland Merullo

True utility computing centers are on the horizon, but right now, the only real ones are a pale approximation of this vision. In the world that the other 99.9% of us inhabit, production systems are deployed to some relatively fixed set of resources. Applications — Michael T. Nygard

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it. — Fred D'Aguiar

You get all these friends just when you don't need friends anymore. — John Green

Dream. Desire. Dare. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable. — Julian Baggini

At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn't impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That's how you get pregnant. May you always be so. — Roger Ebert

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do. — Cesar Millan

You can only sleep in one bed at a time. — Nick Rhodes

I don't really have a bad premiere experience. They're exciting at first. I think, when you first get into the business, you're excited about going down the line and seeing what that's like. — Cole Hauser