Roubles Sign Quotes & Sayings

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. — Robert Breault

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up. — Gloria Swanson

The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle. — Swami Vivekananda

Now working is terribly painful and I'm still having a fight with the booze. I've enlisted the help of a doctor but it's touch and go. A day for me; a day for the hootch. — John Cheever

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt. — Derek Fisher

It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's Vineyard or being chased by the bulls in Pamplona. It's something else to go home and visit with the folks in Reed's drugstore on the square and actually listen to them. The reason you can't go home again is not because the down-home folks are mad at you
they're not, don't flatter yourself, they couldn't care less
but because once you're in orbit and you return to Reed's drugstore on the square, you can stand no more than fifteen minutes of the conversation before you head for the woods, head for the liquor store, or head back to Martha's Vineyard, where at least you can put a tolerable and saving distance between you and home. Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon. — Walker Percy

Not knowing the camera is there, the ability to be unwatched, is the key skill of the film actor. — Peter Skagen

Stand and answer! Why are ye come? By whom are ye sent to trouble me? I am a knight of the Great King. In the King's Name, speak!

~Sir Constant — W.E. Cule

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause. — Edwin Land

Science gives man what he needs, but magic gives man what he wants. — David Brin

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration. — Jane Siberry

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. — Tom Stoppard