Livias Dish Quotes & Sayings

We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention. — Lysa TerKeurst

I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought where slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack. — Jason Isaacs

I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it had an edition in Paris, in 1963. I sold the paper in the streets by day and tore wire copy off the tele-printer for the editors making up the edition by night. — Michael Ignatieff

Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enlightened today, lived a few centuries ago in a state worse than ignorance. Some sort of learned jargon much more despicable than ignorance had usurped the name of knowledge and set up an almost invincible obstacle in the way of its return. A revolution was necessary to bring men back to common sense, and it finally came from a quarter where one would least expect it. It was the stupid Muslim, the eternal blight on learning, who brought about its rebirth among us. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. — Lars Von Trier

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script. — Michael Ealy

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts.
The best vitamin for developing friends is B1.
The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend. — Abraham Lincoln

Yeah, people seem to really relate to it and feel moved by it. It's been the most positively received of all my movies so far. I don't know why. I like it just as much as I like my others, but people think this one is the best or the most interesting. I'll take it, though. I wouldn't want them to be saying my films are getting worse. — Nicole Holofcener

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his. — Matthew Sweet

If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good. — Deborah Day

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone. — Truman Capote

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings. — Sam Harris

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not. — Magdi Yacoub

The world belongs to the people who say, 'I can'. — Russell Simmons

The world is alive with words — Amy Harmon