Kilpinen Erja Quotes & Sayings

These are the three things - volume of sound, modulation of pitch, and rhythm - that a speaker bears in mind. It is those who do bear them in mind who usually win prizes in the dramatic contests; and just as in drama the actors now count for more than the poets, so it is in the contests of public life, owing to the defects of our political institutions. — Aristotle.

And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what's inside is good or bad. Because it's both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out. — M.R. Carey

I didn't tell her about the free-for-alls on the school yard, muggings on the bus. A girl burned a cigarette hole in the back of another girl's shirt at nutrition right in front of me looking at me as if daring me to stop her. I saw a boy being threatened with a knife on the hallway outside my spanish class. Girls talked about their abortions in gym class. Claire didn't need to know about that. I wanted the world to be beautiful for her. I wanted things to work out. I always had a great day no matter what. — Janet Fitch

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act. — Billy Boyd

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was ... — Terry Pratchett

No matter how you die, or what action you take, since you're born,life is just a Suicide Game. — Haidji

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth — Mark Twain

The Holy Spirit speaks sacred words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It looked like a work of art created by a long forgotten god and left to hang forever in a gallery of stars. — Anonymous

I turned my attention back to Kaitlin, who now appeared to be very conscientiously stalking my shoelace. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever. — Ethel Percy Andrus