Manic Sylph Quotes & Sayings

What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn't see me for the same part that they'll see, let's say, Drew Barrymore for. Drew's a great friend of mine. But it's like, "No, we want more of an American type of girl." — Eva Mendes

He who clipped us has kept the scissors. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Those theorists who complain repeatedly about the "externalities" that have messed up their model by fomenting this or that untoward event, before returning to the purity of the model, suffer from a debilitating disease: they act as if the models would work if only the world did not contain so many "outside" factors that are, in fact, imbricated and entangled in a thousand ways with the practices they study. — William E. Connolly

We were barely moving, barely swaying, but under my skin, there were earthquakes, tidal waves. Solar flairs. — Sarah Fine

It would hardly be kindness if he didn't punish sin, not to use every means to put the evil thing far from us. Whatever may be meant by the place of misery Mr. Sutherland, it's only another form of his love. Love shining through the fogs of evil, and thus made to look very different. — George MacDonald

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade. — Nina Bawden

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up. — John Muir

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse. — John Stossel

Image-bearing means becoming fully human, not becoming divine. It means reflecting as a limited being the perfections of a limitless God. — Jen Wilkin

She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark, as though nothing could be said with any reasonable certainty. — Laura Kalpakian

Sometimes I feel that the only concept of fairness in our society is creams like fair & lovely or fair & handsome. — Jeroninio Almeida

Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father. — Roger B. Taney