Lysanderoth Quotes & Sayings

Like behind the car or in the pub, to do a scene, a proper nice dramatic scene, it's always a treat. And they're usually shot as one, so you've got a big chunk of dialogue to learn, and you feel like you're working. — Simon Pegg

Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and quiet it can see and understand deeper things. — Thomas Vazhakunnathu

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself. — Diane Ladd

These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more. — Jane Austen

I have a good black friend who is a doctor, but he didn't become a doctor because he saw other black men who were doctors. He became a doctor because his mother cleaned office buildings at night, and because she loved her children. She grew bowlegged from cleaning office buildings at night, and in the process she taught him something about courage and bravery and dedication to others. — Richard Rodriguez

I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not. — Peter Ackroyd

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. — Anne Tyler

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever." — Bernard Williams

Got up to fetch a glass of water and, assuming I'd missed the train to sleep, I went up to the study, opened the drawer in my desk and pulled out the book I had rescued from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant. — Sigmund Freud

It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands ... They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. — Zora Neale Hurston