Mihill And Webb Quotes & Sayings

Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you. — Eve Hewson

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want to know why they're doing something, opera singers will sort of follow you into the fires of hell. — Simon McBurney

Most men haven't got a clue how to treat a woman, let alone respect her. You give women what you think they need and usually that falls way short of what's actually necessary. And then you fall back on fragile egos, guilting her into taking watered down affection that masquerades as a relationship. — Sydney Addae

A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation. — Thomas Sowell

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else. — Andre Gide

The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed. — Albert Murray

Standing in fron of the doors of a cCatholic church when service is over is a good way to die young. — Dia Reeves

Only solitude means never having to say you're sorry. — Peter Kirby

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. — Pope Benedict XVI

Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made. — Charles Kingsley

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. — Stanislaus I

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing. — Alanis Morissette

People are competing to win at a game that is a loser's game. The game is to have better routine images than someone else's routine images. If you want a prescription for routine images, you just have to go through any student's portfolio. — Henry Holmes Smith

His body trembled against hers. She held on, afraid that if she let go he'd be gone forever. — Gwenda Bond