Raisin In The Sun American Dream Quotes & Sayings

I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on. — Elvis Presley

It is a different sensation than watching the stars while lying in a field, something Bailey has done many times. There are no trees creeping into the edges, and the gentle swaying of the carriage makes him feel almost weightless. And it is incredibly quiet. As the carriage moves along in what seems to be a circular pattern, Bailey can hear nothing but a soft creak and the sound of Poppet breathing next to him. It is as though the entire circus has faded away into the darkness. He glances over at Poppet, who is looking at him instead of the sky. She gives him a grin and then turns away. Bailey wonders if he should ask if she sees anything in the stars. — Erin Morgenstern

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business. — Lynda Obst

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship. — Kenny Loggins

I thought being a man was having control. Being the master and commander of your own destiny. How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To press in. Constricting slowly, inevitably, creating a cage of inconveniences and duties and deadlines and failed plans and lost friends. — Pierce Brown

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship. — Cormac McCarthy

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth. — Sebastian Barry

But after you know a man or a woman like that - after you wear their skin and walk a few miles in it, you can't help but love them - — Brent Weeks

Actually, I stopped looking at myself in the mirror years ago. I wasn't making it to work on time. — Zach Braff

Sophomore records are historically really difficult. — Karen O

Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too. — Harper Lee

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones. — J.I. Packer

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them. — Gunter Grass

Good soul easily sleeps well. — Toba Beta

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine. — Tallulah Bankhead