Sandettes Quotes & Sayings

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. — Samuel Reshevsky

One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again. — Victor Garber

Simplicity is the peak of civilization. — Henry David Thoreau

The subprime mortgage machine was up and running again, as if it had never broken down in the first place. If the first act of subprime lending had been freaky, this second act was terrifying. Thirty billion dollars was a big year for subprime lending in the mid-1990s. In 2000 there had been $130 billion in subprime mortgage lending, and 55 billion dollars' worth of those loans had been repackaged as mortgage bonds. In 2005 there would be $625 billion in subprime mortgage loans, $507 billion of which found its way into mortgage bonds. — Michael Lewis

When your eyes meet my solitude
Silence ripens, a fruit,
And sleep turns into storm.
Forbidden doors fling open
And water learns to suffer. — Joumana Haddad

Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth. — Nachman Of Breslov

Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with. — Judith Orloff

O sun, heart of the heavens whose blood of light
Infuses the vigor which transmutes to azure
The black ice strangler of great space obscure
I hate you, mask of gold, mist and fire, circular
Blind monster blinding all the prey around
You who veil the impure dazzling phantasm
To the loving vertigo of my avid gazes
The visions of the colorless abyss of the void
Reversed hollow truth-mask of the other world. — Roger Gilbert-Lecomte

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard. — Francis Chan

The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class. — James Truslow Adams

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors. — Hugh Grant

I love the structural part of the writing process. — Kate Morton

The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media. — Ryan Phillippe

It's just an inspiring journey in itself to stop drinking this late in my career after abusing alcohol and to have this kind of success so late when usually people give you like this window of success time. — Ryan Montgomery

I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe. — Dennis Lehane