Rozsika Quotes & Sayings

I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it. — Alan Arkin

It is extremely difficult to stay alert & attentive instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monolog inside your head. — David Foster Wallace

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black. — Joan Rivers

Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite. — Robert A. Heinlein

With admirable vigour, Everest, the obese pasty kid, begins listing the world's serial killers in alphabetical order. 'Jeffrey Dahmer; Charles 'The Axe' Eden; Freddy 'The Fox' Flanagan...' Steadily advancing through the monsters, jowls redder and redder as he refuses to breathe. If ever Queen B thought that her sister had secretly dropped her son on his head during one of her binges, then it's now, even his albino eyes are glowing red. — Jonathan Dunne

Life is a miracle. We, all of us are creator beings. We are the joyful choice makers. — Sakshi Chetana

So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims. — Samuel Gompers

What makes you think you can survive as a saint in this world, unless you make it your business to exploit the gullible and greedy? — Anand Neelakantan

I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion — Ziggy Marley

Femininity and sweetness are part of women's strength...Quiet strength need not be mistaken for useless vulnerability. — Rozsika Parker

But the ensemble's greatest legacy can be found in the lives it saved during the Holocaust. By helping the musicians as well as their family members immigrate to Palestine, Huberman saved an estimated one thousand lives between 1935 and 1939. The — James A. Grymes

My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. — Samuel Johnson

I identified historical hierarchical division of the arts into fine arts and craft as a major force in the marginalisation of women's work. — Rozsika Parker

I have met Mariah before and she's really cool and so funny. Everyone has been given the wrong impression of her, and maybe it is her doing. But you have to remember that celebrities are always in the spotlight and are sometimes forced to conduct themselves in a different way than they normally do. That's how it is in the business. I have met artists who are real divas, but Mariah Carey is not one of them. She is a very sweet person, and what nobody sees off camera is the real person she is on the inside. — Janet Jackson