Necessitees Quotes & Sayings

I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. I ... wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe. — Lauren Oliver

When Sweden's Jan-Ove Waldner travels to China to play table tennis, he is mobbed when he leaves his hotel as if he were a rock star walking around Manhattan or a soccer star walking around Europe. — George Vecsey

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided. — James Madison

I don't trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread. Writing is probably the only hobby I have. But I wish I had another one. If I was just a little better at golf. — John Goodman

The crow cawed again overhead, and a strong sea wind came in and burst through the trees, making the green pine needles shake themselves all over the place. That sound always gave me goose bumps, the good kind. It was the sound an orphan governess hears in a book,before a mad woman sets the bed curtains on fire. — April Genevieve Tucholke

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain. — Tom Stoppard

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris. — George V

Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world that is not. And I think that imagination is one of the most important and defining aspects of human existence: our ability to imagine a world that is not. — Brandon Sanderson

Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky. — Rich Sommer

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor. — John Engler

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller

be
who
you
would
be
if
your
shadow
had
eyes. — JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon

Life can be a beautiful journey if you accept who you are and accept the people around you for what they are. — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. — Willie Dixon

The cat is obeying its blood instinct when it plays with the mouse! It's made that way. — Agatha Christie