Rooftrees Quotes & Sayings

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. — Joseph Addison

What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?" — Naomi Watts

The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with who you really are. Your true nature. Your essence. — Geneen Roth

Someone said the rain would mean nothing if thirst had never been named. — Adam Clay

Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong. — Edward Tenner

You know how you always expect someone to think the same as you and then your like, really shocked when they don't? Like when it's a cold day and you turn to the person next to you and say, 'Its so cold, aren't you cold?' and then they say 'no.' It's kinda like, 'what, are you a communist? — Ellen DeGeneres

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence? — Joshua Foer

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages. — Alexis De Veaux

Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met ... I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to. — Pope Francis

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me. — Alan Cumming

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity. — Rob Lowe

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us. — Origen