Roshunda Neal Baylor Quotes & Sayings

One can press a man as far as one likes - but with a woman one must not press too far. For a woman has at heart a great desire to speak the truth. How many husbands who have deceived their wives go comfortably to their graves, carrying their secret with them! How many wives who have deceived their husbands wreck their lives by throwing the fact in those same husbands' teeth! They have been pressed too far. In a reckless moment (which they will afterwards regret, bien entendu) they fling safety to the winds and turn at bay, proclaiming the truth with great momentary satisfaction to themselves. — Agatha Christie

My name used to be in the papers daily
As having dined somewhere,
Or traveled somewhere,
Or rented a house in Paris,
Where I entertained the nobility.
I was forever eating or traveling,
Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden.
Now I am here to do honor
To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang.
No one cares now where I dined,
Or lived, or whom I entertained,
Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden! — Edgar Lee Masters

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure. — Jesse Eisenberg

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames. — Ernst Junger

He would've gotten a bigger change of expression from the Lincoln head at Mount Rushmore. — Suzanne Brockmann

Nothing in the world, I thought to myself, is as old as what was futuristic in the past. — Ben Lerner

My music lives because of real players. — Abel Korzeniowski

The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and our places. So there's room for a movie for her, but I don't think it will hew to the book. — Stacy Schiff

Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me. — Madeleine Brent

What can I say?
Life's no bed of roses
For a kid who's different,
A kid with horns.
A bed of roses?
LMAO! — David Elliott

When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things. — Sean Penn