Regina Volver Quotes & Sayings

A lot of times, I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in 'Easy A', or because they've seen me in interviews, but really what they're a fan of is a movie or a character. — Emma Stone

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage. — Paulo Coelho

She is sad. She does not speak Japanese. Her husband went to the desert months and months ago. Every day she goes to the market and brings back chocolate, a peach, and a salmon rice-ball for her dinner. She sits and eats and stares at the wall. Sometimes she watches television. Sometimes she walks three miles to Blue Street to look at necklaces in the window that she wishes someone would buy for her. Sometimes she walks along the pier to see the sunken bicycles, pinged into ruin by invisible arrows of battleship-sonar, crusted over with rust and coral. She likes to pet people's dogs as they walk them. That is her whole life. What should she dream of?"
"Something better. — Catherynne M Valente

How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable to see them. — D. Morgenstern

As the clinic's janitors, it had been a simple matter for Merv and Scant to plant the acid balloons the previous evening. Of — Eoin Colfer

As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own. — Tullian Tchividjian

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture. — Martin Chemnitz

We were The Hottentot Venus
Draped in our mothers' dresses,
Wearing rouge & lipstick,
Pillows tucked under floral
& print cloth, the first day of spring,
As we balanced on high heels.
Women sat in a circle talking
About men; the girls off
Somewhere else, in other houses.
We felt the last kisses
Our mothers would give us
On the mouth. — Yusef Komunyakaa

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life. — Laurence Sterne

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. — Thomas Jefferson

We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress. — Sheryl Sandberg

I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show. — Sophie Monk

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living. — Dave Thomas

I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can. — Franka Potente