Maquettes Quotes & Sayings

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an 'improvise, adapt and overcome' mentality. — Bear Grylls

[Theodore] Roosevelt had long ago discovered that the more provincial the supplicants, the less able were they to understand that their need was not unique: that he was not yearning to travel two thousand miles on bad trains to support the reelection campaign of a county sheriff, or to address the congregation of a new chapel in a landscape with no trees. His refusal, no matter how elaborately apologetic, was received more often in puzzlement than anger. Imaginatively challenged folks, for whom crossing a state line amounted to foreign travel, could not conceive that the gray-blue eyes inspecting them had, over the past year, similarly scrutinized Nandi warriors, Arab mullahs, Magyar landowners, French marshals, Prussian academics, or practically any monarch or minister of consequence in Europe -- not to mention the maquettes in Rodin's studio, and whatever dark truths flickered in the gaze of dying lions.

From COLONEL ROOSEVELT, p. 104. — Edmund Morris

I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola. — Ezra Koenig

I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist ... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate. — Alejandro Amenabar

The two men used their arms to semaphore greetings and good-byes. — Anonymous

When two or three are gathered in unison, when all awareness is in total harmony, something magical will happen. — Daniel Chong

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together. — Tommy Rettig

College on for sure ... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly! — Rob Morrow

I moaned and he growled in response. — Aileen Erin

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage — Peggy Noonan

You can only see in others what is inside of you. — Zig Ziglar

I said, not knowing what the next words out of my mouth would be, but wanting them to be mine, wanting, more than I'd ever wanted anything, to express the center of me to and be understood. — Jonathan Safran Foer

A number of small decisions, each appearing insignificant in the moment and made in isolation of one another, can result in a negative outcome. — Vince Molinaro

I don't want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything that's a lead. — Donald Faison