Lacquered Wood Quotes & Sayings

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. — Simon McBurney

I am good, but not an angel. — Marilyn Monroe

Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue. — Barack Obama

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women. — Sandra Dallas

You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live. — Susan Wiggs

I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot keep it up for more than a few minutes. Visual impressions, reflections of hands in lacquered wood, a diligent bald spot over a fiddle, take over, and soon I am bored beyond measure by the motions of the musicians. — Vladimir Nabokov

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood. — Richard O'Brien

I am dismayed to be in season. I curse men who think of me as food and dream of rickshaws, and lacquered wood. — Andre Alexis

Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house. — Mark Zupan

She died, and left to me
This heath, this calm and quiet scene,
The memory of what has been,
And never more will be. — William Wordsworth

IMAGINE YOU ARE Siri Keeton. You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one hundred forty days. You can feel your blood, syrupy with dobutamine and leuenkephalin, forcing its way through arteries shriveled by months on standby. The body inflates in painful increments: blood vessels dilate, flesh peels apart from flesh, ribs crack in your ears with sudden unaccustomed flexion. Your joints have seized up through disuse. You're a stick man, frozen in some perverse rigor vitae. You'd scream if you had the breath. — Peter Watts

If you are burned, you are naturally anxious to see what your face looks like as soon as they take the bandages off. In my case, it was my voice that was my main concern. — Jose Carreras

Enjoy it any way you can. — Melissa Craig

He was so handsome she wanted to demand an apology from him. — Tiffany Reisz

Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time ... If he keeps developing and matures ? goodness knows what he will become. At the moment he's a breathe of fresh air.
(on Wayne Rooney) — Alex Ferguson

Surround yourself with a bunch of ,outstanding, idiots and you will have a lot of fun. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann