Scagliola Columns Quotes & Sayings

You notice how they always put the fruit and veg at the entrance to the supermarket? You go in thinking 'this is a fresh shop, everything in here is FRESH! I will do well to shop here'.
You never go straight to the bit with the toilet paper, loo brushes and such do you? You'd think 'this is a POO shop! Everything in here is themed on POO! — Eddie Izzard

You don't have to ask permission to take responsibility. — Ed Catmull

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon. — Denis Waitley

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part. — Lynda Obst

Look, Pitbull is a product. — Pitbull

You are so hot," I said.
"How hot?" she asked, toying with the hem of the shirt.
"Ionising radiation hot," I said. "Neutral pion decay hot."
Elena snorted. "You're such a romantic," she said. — David Walton

To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful. — Marisha Pessl

Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it's the picture's crucial scene. — Steve Erickson

What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Recognize the difference between a dream and a nightmare, and date the man from your dreams, not your nightmares. — Jenna Alatari

Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self.
Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet she is near; and though only the breath of your breath reaches her heart, the shadow of your shadow crosses her face, and the echo of your faintest cry becomes a spring and an autumn in her breast.
And life is veiled and hidden, even as your greater self is hidden and veiled. Yet when Life speaks, all the winds become words; and when she speaks again, the smiles upon your lips and the tears in your eyes turn also into words. When she sings, the deaf hear and are held; and when she comes walking, the sightless behold her and are amazed and follow her in wonder and astonishment. — Kahlil Gibran

Lighten up," I said. "Marriage isn't a sacrament. It's just a bunch of forms to fill out. — Anonymous

There are aspects of writing that require you to image yourself in various roles and guises, to stand in the shoes of others, to 'act' on an inner stage. — James Luceno