Nella Larsen Passing Quotes & Sayings

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. — Alan Cumming

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.
("New York Blues") — Cornell Woolrich

The Republicans are not anti-Latinos. You know, I tell the story all the time that the Tea Party is the one that has actually brought out the Latinos. Look at Idaho. I actually ran against a person in my primary who was born and raised in Idaho who happened to be Caucasian, and they elected the guy who was from Puerto Rico with an accent. — Raul Labrador

If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation. — David Brent

That kind of party had always scared Daisy, the smell on your clothes the next day and something else that couldn't be washed off. — Mark Haddon

She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "passing," this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chance in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly. — Nella Larsen

I was eighteen, baby! I could finally... vote and buy all those cartons of cigarettes I'd been pining for. Yippee — Jenn Bennett

Standing in this glittering room with the music in the background and the press and hum of scores of people, the clink of glasses, the faint smells of warmth, champagne, stiff material and sometimes of flowers and perfume, — Anne Perry

On a scale of one to sexy I'm at a solid awkward turtle ninety percent of the time. — Kandi Steiner

You knew, didn't you? It's why you came running in here like you did."
"I didn't know it was another IED. I just knew you'd been arrested and that you were being targeted by assassins."
"And you came running," Talyn repeated.
"It's what I would have been doing your whole life, had I known I had you."
-Talyn & Fain — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Maybe that's when bad scripts are written, when you choose the theme first. I consider that I've something to say when I've thought of a person, a moment, a single beat of the heart, that I think is true and interesting, and therefore should be seen. — Russell T. Davies