Montalvo House Quotes & Sayings

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money. — Ben Affleck

And maybe that's the secret: Maybe we do go in circles, but they're orbits, created by the gravity of our hearts and hopes, and so if we stay true to ourselves, we will face the same situations again, but each time we come around, we know more, we've grown, learned, and this time we can get it right, or at least a little better. — Kevin Emerson

Glances
Two people meet. The sky turns winter,
quells whatever they would say.
Then, a periphery glance into danger -
and an avalanche already on its way.
They have been honest all their lives;
careful, calm, never in haste;
they didn't know what it is to meet.
Now they have met: the world is waste.
They find they are riding an avalanche
feeling at rest, all danger gone.
The present looks out of their eyes; they stand
calm and still on a speeding stone. — William Stafford

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded. — Aeschylus

Hers was the bliss of one who knew that at last she was off upon the adventure at the end of which lay her heart's desire'. — Paul Gallico

How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination. — Joy Browne

LIFE Leadership: Live the life you've always wanted by losing the debt you've never needed. — Orrin Woodward

Drama is based on the Mistake. — W. H. Auden

He acquired the unknowable, variable depths; he could be anyone he wanted to be, and if he didn't like who he became, he could switch again, going in, going out. And who the fuck are you? — Aleksandar Hemon

You returned for me, Finn. After everything you said."
Finnkin's eyes were fierce with emotion.
"Do you honestly think I would have left you out here, knowing there was a small army in the vicinity?"
"I'm surprised you were able to convince Perri and your father to return."
Finnikin laughed. "All I had to do was stop the horse and say, 'I think ... ' and they were racing back into the woods to you. — Melina Marchetta

Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. If he can squirm in anywhere where he particularly is not wanted, and be a perfect nuisance, and make people mad, and have things thrown at his head, then he feels his day has not been wasted.
To get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour, is his highest aim and object; and, when he has succeeded in accomplishing this, his conceit becomes quite unbearable. — Jerome K. Jerome

Read and write. Vehemently. — Michael X. Barton

[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it. — Moms Mabley

Life is too short when you think of the length of death — Sean Mangan

It is a cruel fact, child. Wisdom comes after the moment when it is most needed. — Jeff Wheeler