Misstaging Quotes & Sayings

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost. — Sena Jeter Naslund

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked. — Gustavo Dudamel

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process. — Alexis Bledel

Science fiction is always about the time it's written in. 1984 was always about 1948. Science fiction is social fiction. I — Warren Ellis

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things. — Joseph Campbell

It's quite simple and natural if you think it out. The old pagan Britons were in the habit of having fairs when they assembled at their holy centres for the big sun festivals. The fairs went on just the same, whether they were pagan or Christian, and the missionary centres grew up where the crowds came together. When the king was converted, they just changed the Sun for the Son. The common people never knew the difference. They went for the fun of the fair and took part in the ceremonies to bring good luck and make the fields fertile. How were they to know the difference between Good Friday and the spring ploughing festival? There was a human sacrifice on both occasions. — Dion Fortune

You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion ... constructively. — Cate Blanchett

Witches just aren't like that," said Magrat. "We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it's wicked of them to say we don't. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead."
The other two looked at her with a certain amount of surprised admiration. She blushed, although not greenly, and looked at her knees.
"Goodie Whemper did a recipe," she confessed. "It's quite easy. What you do is, you get some lead, and you - "
"I don't think that would be appropriate," said Granny carefully, after a certain amount of internal struggle. "It could give people the wrong idea."
"But not for long," said Nanny wistfully. — Terry Pratchett

The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever. — Jim Rohn

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it. — W. H. Auden