Portsmouth Theater Quotes & Sayings

The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them. — Thomas More

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win. — John Berryman

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared. — Julianne Moore

I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with. — Andy Daly

How did you get me here? (Tory)
I have my evil Jedi ways. The Force is strong with this one. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work. — Kate Zambreno

Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities. — R.M. Jones

... where the two cities are close up they make for interference patterns, harder to read or predict. They are more than a city and a city; that is elementary urban arithmetic. — China Mieville

A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it's over. Be pleasant but don't smile too much; be sad but don't overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don't let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, finger-pointing, tears, snot, and screaming. — Cecelia Ahern

I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it. — Andre Dubus III

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works. — Simon Baker

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. — Frederick The Great

I had no idea that the Scottish so loathed the English that their favorite team in the world is whichever one is presently playing England. — Bill Bryson

Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science. — Rodney Stark