Ponderant Quotes & Sayings

Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away. — Jane Smiley

For so long, my body has been a battleground. I want to get closer to you, but I don't know how. — Pamela Clare

I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick. — Brooke Fraser

Wouldn't it be great if we could be a little less judgmental and a little more forgiving of each other's humanness? We're only here a short time. Let's pay more attention to the good and not the bad in one another. — Patrick Fabian

She had stayed because, however lonely she was with Harold, the world without him would be even more desolate. — Rachel Joyce

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable. — Mark McGwire

I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence. — Janet Frame

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one. — Vincent Cassel

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up. — J. Michael Straczynski

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily. — Ronnie Corbett

Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand the respect of governments, and perhaps was the generating clout against encroachments on the spiritual protections for speech, assembly, and so on. It might turn out that without the right to possess we are not sure we really have the right to speak and to be. — Arthur Miller

I'm from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor. — Kumail Nanjiani

Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one. — James Shapiro

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses. — Lena Headey