Perdured Quotes & Sayings

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative. — Daisy Ridley

Nowhere is the dog more venerated and cared for than in Zoroastianism. The Avesta and other sacred books say the dog symbolizes sagacity, vigilance and fidelity and is the pillar of the pastoral culture. It must be treated with the utmost kindness and reverence. Every household should not only give food to every hungry dog but the dog should be fed with 'clean food,' specially prepared, before the family itself is fed. At religious ceremonies a complete 'meal of the dog' is prepared with consecrated food and the dog is served before the worshippers join in the communal meal. A prayer is said as the dog eats. — J.C. Cooper

If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use. — Joel Kinnaman

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are. — Stuart Woods

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature. — Walter A. Shewhart

In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year. — Keith Thibodeaux

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing. — Jonathan Levine

It was just this sudden call like it was an emergency. "Quick! You have to go do this ... because it's Friends!" I was just, "Oh, my God, okay!" — Sherilyn Fenn

Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn't call her beautiful. I think that is why Cheryl Cole is so popular, because she is just so pretty and the public are starved of gorgeous people. When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous. — Joan Collins

And of storehouses and of freight-trains - destruction — Zane Grey

And it did me no good to recall particular conversations (if indeed these were particular conversations I was remembering so vividly, rather than inventions of my uneasy brain). Remembering clarified nothing. — Emma Donoghue

This is what I am: watching the spider
rebuild - "patiently", they say,
but I recognise in her
impatience - my own-
the passion to make and make again
where such unmaking reigns
the refusal to be a victim
we have lived with violence so long
Am I to go on saying
for myself, for her
This is my body,
take it and destroy it? — Adrienne Rich

Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives.
- Clara Bayliss — John Hennessy

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand. — James T. Farrell