Nelba Marquez Greene Quotes & Sayings

Men are moral beings in their untrammelled nature. If constraint and coercion can once be removed they will be happy and if they are happy they will also be good ... — Barry Unsworth

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not. — Tamsin Egerton

The function of the painter is to render ... the visible surface so that at a certain distance ... and position it appears ... like the body itself. — Leon Battista Alberti

The self is constituted within a variety of arenas and in relation to multiple traditions. Self-hood, on this understanding, is both provisional and open-ended, and critically depends on the configuration of relationships between one's own groups and those cultures and values that are deemed 'other'. The regulation of alterity becomes a defining attribute of self-hood, as my sense of who I am is crucially mediated by an understanding of that which I am not (paraphrasing William Connolly). — Michael Kenny

The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed. — Ivan Illich

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. — Paul Newman

You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere. — Vladimir Nabokov

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day. — John Bishop

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. — Epicurus

The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings. — Christopher Fry