Rathbone Quotes & Sayings

Lust tastes like tequila and love tastes like whiskey. Love burns for longer and warms you up on the inside and sometimes it makes you do stupid things. Tequila makes you wasted. You can get wasted on lust and warmed by love. — Jackson Rathbone

I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economic status of the family - of its members in relation to each other and of the whole unit in relation to the other units of which the community is made up. — Eleanor Rathbone

Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented. — Nikki Reed

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity. — Brian Rathbone

Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me. — Stephenie Meyer

Some of them were confused and angry, but given the same circumstances, I was convinced that I would have turned out just like them. It was the difference in where we were born, and to whom, that separated us---not the difference of who we were. — Cristina Rathbone

Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home. — Brian Rathbone

I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots. — Jackson Rathbone

I'm all about nightlife. I live during the night. — Jackson Rathbone

Jackson [Rathbone], who plays Jasper Cullen. He's such a mysterious kid. I've been friends with him for a long time, and I still don't get him, and I don't think he gets himself! He's really friendly, but there's this mystery about him and he's talented in so many ways. It's too much talent for one person. He reminds me of a vampire. — Kellan Lutz

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed. — Brian Rathbone

What goes up must come down, unless a dragon eats it. — Brian Rathbone

Much the same may be said of his ancestry and family connections. — Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood

Windows no longer comes in a Windows RT version. If you bought a Windows RT tablet, such as the Surface RT or Surface 2, you can't upgrade it to Windows 10. — Andy Rathbone

In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot? — Jackson Rathbone

I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee. — Jackson Rathbone

I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face. — Jackson Rathbone

Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities. — Brian Rathbone

All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel. — William Rathbone Greg

Procrastination robs the world of countless treasures. — Brian Rathbone

The explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone. — Eleanor Rathbone

I usually sleep just a few hours a night. — Jackson Rathbone

If you wish to find yourself, you must first admit you are lost. — Brian Rathbone

Darkness, no matter how powerful it may seem, can be driven back by the tiniest spark. — Brian Rathbone

My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in the morning. They would use a cattle prod and just shock me, or throw boiling water on me, or fire a gun next to my head, to get me out of bed. — Jackson Rathbone

I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses. — Jackson Rathbone

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies. — Jackson Rathbone

Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED — William Rathbone Greg

Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses. — Eleanor Rathbone

I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It'd be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life! — Jackson Rathbone

Everyday we have to go to classroom 107A, where portions of English, math and social studies are meted out like different nutrients of a hospital diet. — Emma Rathbone

We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards. — Nina Tassler

This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity. — Brian Rathbone

I live for art. I love entertaining people, making them smile and think. I love to know that a little piece of what they see, read or what they listen to is something that they can think about or see the world in a different way. Art is never-ending and I'd like to leave something that survives me when I'll die. — Jackson Rathbone

The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position. — William Rathbone Greg

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use. — Jackson Rathbone

The souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life. — Brian Rathbone

It's not exactly that I can't stay in one place. It's that if I'm in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room! — Jackson Rathbone

Each of us is uniquely qualified for some task. We have but to find it. — Brian Rathbone

I miss Texas so bad. That's the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff. It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It's tough. — Jackson Rathbone

I hated going to school, mainly because my sister would drive me and she would put her make-up on while she drove. That's dangerous. That should be illegal. — Jackson Rathbone

General Dempsy despaired. The prophecies were impossible to argue since no proof could be offered to discredit them. They were sacred and above reproach. — Brian Rathbone

Jackson Rathbone - he is a prankster. Constantly scaring people from behind, stuff like that. — Michael Welch

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much. — Basil Rathbone

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset. — Pete Townshend

We appreciate most that which we have lived without. — Brian Rathbone

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people. — Basil Rathbone

Eli grinned, a dimple appearing on one cheek. "Could it be you're starting to care whether Lance Rathbone lives or dies? Miracles and wonders abound."
"Shut up — Mindee Arnett

That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house ... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films. — Cate Blanchett

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. — Basil Rathbone

Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own. — Eleanor Rathbone

The most awesome powers are those not wielded. — Brian Rathbone

I saw the way Rathbone looked at you," he said, taking a little nip at the delicate curve of her ear.
She gave a little squeak, so he did it again, feeling the tremor that ran through her body.
"He wants you. I saw the way you were laughing together. He was seeing you for the first time, the way I did."
"Amazing how many blind men there are in London," she said. — Eloisa James

I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films. — Jackson Rathbone

I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid. — Jackson Rathbone

I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy. — Basil Rathbone

There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother. — Eleanor Rathbone

The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians. — Eleanor Rathbone

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will. — Basil Rathbone

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston. — John Logan