Roy Scheider Movie Quotes & Sayings

A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely without hope of getting a wife, a mistress, or any kind of woman except - very rarely, when he can raise a few shillings - a prostitute.
It is obvious what the results of this must be: homosexuality, for instance, and occasional rape cases. But deeper than these there is the degradation worked in a man who knows that he is not even considered fit for marriage. The sexual impulse, not to put it any higher, is a fundamental impulse, and starvation of it can be almost as demoralizing as physical hunger. The evil of poverty is not so much that it makes a man suffer as that it rots him physically and spiritually. And there can be no doubt that sexual starvation contributes to this rotting process. Cut off from the whole race of women, a tramp feels himself degraded to the rank of a cripple or a lunatic. No humiliation could do more damage to a man's self-respect. — George Orwell

There are two roads you can go by, they meet up in the long run, but there is still time to change the road your on. — Robert Plant

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. — Charles Spurgeon

I had learned by personal experience that grumblers are deaf to any voices but their own. — Alan Bradley

It's taking our officers much longer to respond to an accident because they have to fight their way through all of the traffic just to get to the scene — Don Kelly

I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands of years even before America existed. It could even be that China's growing power will allow itself to be slowed down. But as long as this immense empire doesn't fall apart, it will become an important factor in global politics. — Henry A. Kissinger

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better. — J.R.R. Tolkien

There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help you reconnect with home. — Ann Shulgin

But, I believe," I continue, "I know what true love is - or what it should be."
"What should it be?" Tristan asks, his voice soft now.
"It should be a friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for - loving the person because of those things. — Lisa Ann Sandell

I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it. — Taylor Caldwell

We live most days and most of the hours of those days in a world permeated with the making and purchasing of idols. — Eugene H. Peterson

I always said there were plenty of things going on here, right under our noses, that we couldn't see," she said, holding out her apron.

"I don't see with my nose," I remarked. "What have you got there? — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Time passed quickly. Constant did not move. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.