Old Lodge Skins Quotes & Sayings

When I discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the first time I was passionate about anything. — David Morrissey

You don't have to know just what people are doing and feeling to be of assistance to them. Your own life seems to you like a very small lighted room, with great darkness all around it, and you can't see out into the darkness and know what is happening there. But light and warmth from your room can go out into the darkness if you don't have the windows selfishly curtained, keep a brave fire burning, and light all the happy candles you can. — Elizabeth Goudge

It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him. — Maria Montessori

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit. — David Lodge

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it. — John Updike

Many years ago a college professor told me the story about the lion tamer and the lion. So here's the clever lion tamer, with his little twirling stick, and there is the lion, prancing obediently to the machinations of the lion tamer. Clearly the lion tamer is in charge. But, asked my professor, who is actually more powerful, the lion tamer or the lion? Obviously it is the lion. Why then does the lion do the bidding of the lion tamer? Because the lion doesn't know its own power. We, the American people, have been exploited and stolen from and we have put up with it at least in part because we are awed by the power of the progressive lion tamers. I admit they do have power, but I am also saying we do not appreciate our own strength. — Dinesh D'Souza

In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up. — Dave Barry

Change begins with ourselves. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nevertheless, it is the free grace of the resurrected One that now also goes after the individual, overcomes the doubter, and creates in him the Easter faith. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time! — Jen Selinsky

I will not be poisoned by your bitterness. — L.M. Montgomery

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. — Liane Moriarty

In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner. — Frank Bruni

I auditioned for the role of Jamie Mitchell in 'EastEnders,' and it was between me and Jack Ryder, and he got it. — Russell Tovey