Marc Rebillet Quotes & Sayings

Don't blame me, Pongo,' said Lord Ickenham, 'if Lady Constance takes her lorgnette to you. God bless my soul, though, you can't compare the lorgnettes of to-day with the ones I used to know as a boy. I remember walking one day in Grosvenor Square with my aunt Brenda and her pug dog Jabberwocky, and a policeman came up and said the latter ought to be wearing a muzzle. My aunt made no verbal reply. She merely whipped her lorgnette from its holster and looked at the man, who gave one choking gasp and fell back against the railings, without a mark on him but with an awful look of horror in his staring eyes, as if he had seen some dreadful sight. A doctor was sent for, and they managed to bring him round, but he was never the same again. He had to leave the Force, and eventually drifted into the grocery business. And that is how Sir Thomas Lipton got his start. — P.G. Wodehouse

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle. — Julian Fellowes

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty. — Lawrence Durrell

Pella felt like she knew a lot about men, but she couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of them, to be in a room of them with no woman present, to participate in their silent rights of contrition and redemption. — Chad Harbach

- Who would carry the bell canto
- Of course Montserrat Caballe — Maria Callas

I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged. — Kirsten Dunst

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove. — Christian Marclay

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state, — Joseph Campbell

I was once on a BBC current-affairs show and the sneering host produced a Solzhenitsyn quote designed to demonstrate that my view of American pre-eminence was all hooey, and rounded it out with a snide "I take it you've heard of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?" "Oh, sure," I said. "We have the same piano tuner." Which we did. — Mark Steyn

At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a two million dollar independent film. I did a lot more physical work than I'd probably have to do for a two million dollar independent film with four months of training and stuff. But as far as the character's psychology or emotional life goes, I treat it just the same. — Colin Farrell

It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed). — Morrissey

What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them. — Holly Black

Reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve. — John Wooden

But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living. — Nhat Hanh