L V Stockard Quotes & Sayings

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology. — Stockard Channing

I hope that the American public understands that we have three levels of government. We have the (unintelligible) the executive, but there's legislative and the judicial, and the legislative obviously need to be just doing their job. — Stockard Channing

Destiny is the established end of someone while vision remarks the photos of that predestined end, though not yet fulfilled. The insight of an unexperienced destiny can be discovered. That is through visions. — Israelmore Ayivor

It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing. — Stockard Channing

I realized that, for me, great records always moved me with the lyrics and the melodies. And so I said, 'I think I can do it now,' 'cause I found a team of people who understand I didn't want a record that was 'drop it, pop it, shake it' just 'cause I can dance. — Laurieann Gibson

Elena gave a low laugh. "Maleeshka, little one, it's me you're talking to, not the Cossack. I am a whore and I know the smell of men and the smell of sex. You stink of both. — Kate Furnivall

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio. — Ed Bradley

I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins. — Stockard Channing

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line. — Stockard Channing

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable. — Paulo Coelho

It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way. — Stockard Channing

Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind. — Suzanne Collins

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time. — Stockard Channing

No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation. — Theodore Roosevelt

It's always great to have another chance at something. — Stockard Channing

If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma. — Walter E. Williams

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up. — Stockard Channing

The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing. Let the poor come, let the ignorant and carnal come; let the children without reason or knowledge come, let the dull or hard hearts which can retain nothing come to the practice of prayer and they shall become wise. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest. — Stockard Channing

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine. — Francoise Sagan

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years. — Stockard Channing

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater. — Stockard Channing

I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is. — Stockard Channing

I lead a very boring, normal life. — Stockard Channing

Oh, my only - if I had one frustration in being on 'West Wing' is I wasn't on it enough, because I was in and out. — Stockard Channing

There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought. — Christine McVie

The proper worldview context for interpreting the Bible is not evangelicalism, Catholicism, the Protestant Reformation, the Puritans - or even the modern world. The proper context for interpreting the Bible is the context in which it was written - that of the ancient biblical writers. — Michael S. Heiser

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully. — Stockard Channing

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me. — Stockard Channing

I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something. — Stockard Channing

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever! — Stockard Channing

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part. — Stockard Channing

Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff. — Stockard Channing

I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor. — Stockard Channing

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong. — Bell Hooks