Lauriers Quotes & Sayings

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven. — Mandy Patinkin

The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection. — W. Somerset Maugham

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run — Andrew Marvell

A few moments after he found himself on the stage amid the garish gas and the dim scenery, acting before the innumerable faces of the void. It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own. It seemed now to play itself, he and his fellow actors aiding it with their parts. When the curtain fell on the last scene he heard the void filled with applause and, through a rift in a side scene, saw the simple body before which he had acted magically deformed, the void of faces breaking at all points and falling asunder into busy groups. — James Joyce

Told you, somethin's good, it's worth fightin' for but not if you're the only one fightin'. — Kristen Ashley

My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him. By contrast, I could barely talk to a woman, at least about anything pertaining to a relationship. Given that my only long-term girlfriends had faked their own death, died, and broken free of enslaving enchantments to end the relationship, the empirical evidence seemed to indicate that he knew something I didn't. Keep your life tonight, Harry. Complicate it tomorrow. — Jim Butcher

I told my mother he looked like a deflated balloon. Greta said he looked like a small gray moth wrapped in a spider's web. That's because everything about Greta is more beautiful, even the way she says things. — Carol Rifka Brunt

That was a f****g dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?! — Rocky Marciano

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we go?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's go.

They do not move. — Samuel Beckett

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [ ... ] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. — George R R Martin

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book. — Bruce Lee

I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does. — Sergei Lavrov

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. — Christian Nestell Bovee