La Somnambule Quotes & Sayings

What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable. — Peyton Reed

To say, 'he lacks understanding', about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed). — Dada Bhagwan

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. — Gertrude Atherton

Having a vision for what you want is not enough ... Vision without execution is hallucination — Thomas A. Edison

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them. — Craig Charles

If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my personal life, health crises, or the deaths of my parents, because there can too easily be a perception of me that my life just went from A to Z uninterrupted, without any ups and downs, and that's not a fair representation. — Condoleezza Rice

Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!" — Zoe Kravitz

I like to shop. That's what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping. — Sloane Stephens

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. — Frances Burney

It's really strange, but they speak to me - the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people's music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul. — Yanni

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

His fabrications seemed to be the framework of a forgotten but imposing plan; some condition of life of which he was the sole surviving retainer."
--from "La Somnambule" (1937) by Djuna Barnes — Shaun Whiteside

But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades. — Jude Morgan