Refrained From Crossword Quotes & Sayings

When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy. — David Suchet

I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable. — Michael Caine

Was this what he believed, what he had always believed when I talked on and on about goodness? Was he making the violin say it? Was he deliberately creating those long, pure liquid notes to say that beauty meant nothing because it came from the dispair inside him, and it had nothing to do with the desair finally, because the despair wasn't beautiful, and a beauty then was a horrid irony? — Anne Rice

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy. — Criss Jami

You can't find peace by hiding from life — Nicole Kidman

I gripped hold of that scarf like my life depended on it. Still to this day I inhale it every night, despite what has happened over the years. I don't blame her now for not waiting. For all she knew, I wouldn't return. But to marry him, god, she could have done so much better. — LeeAnn Whitaker

It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult
and far more precious
to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist. — Vladimir Lenin

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something. — Ouida

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them. — Lysander Spooner

High born she might not be. But assuredly she cared about her ancestors, — E. M. Forster

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed. — William Vickrey

Complaining doesn't change people ... All that complain, this is terrible ... It's not so terrible. — Alice Herz-Sommer