Schmitz Quotes & Sayings

Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from these experiences creatively. I really, really learned so much about acting, about myself ... all of those things. It's difficult to talk about the actor's process without sounding like an arrogant asshole but they really were very challenging. — Kate Winslet

Never go to war unless your willing to win. — John G. Schmitz

Earth teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands all alone.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring. — William Alexander

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth. — John G. Schmitz

My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day. — Kate Winslet

To please the many is to displease the wise. — Plutarch

She looked at him, his soft brown eyes and tall form, and contemplated raising herself on her toes and kissing his ear, or his cheek ...
Instead, impulsively before leaving, she reached up and smoothed his mussed hair.
Mr. Bradford beamed. — Heather Dixon

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world. — David Duchovny

Martin Luther King is a notorious liar[] — John G. Schmitz

[Telzey] took out a pocket edition law library and sat down at the table.
She clicked on the library's viewscreen, tapped the clearing and index buttons. Behind the screen, one of the multiple rows of pinhead tapes shifted slightly as the index was flicked into reading position. — James H. Schmitz

The moment you have subtitles and you have to speak Chinese, you already limit your global audience. — Bruno Zheng Wu

There were no obvious applications, no clear ways of making money off the thing, but he knew there were people out there who, like him, desired to hold another person's hand anonymously. — Andrew John Schmitz

I am a galley slave to pen and ink. — Honore De Balzac

A book is a blossoming of hope. — Antonio D'Alfonso

I may not be Hispanic, but I'm close. I'm Catholic with a mustache[] — John G. Schmitz

Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them - Mary Read and Anne Bonny - became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, 'Calico' Jack Rackham. — Robert Kurson

Most important, whether or not we openly struggle with unwanted behavior or addiction, the Twelve Steps provide a framework for examining ourselves, pondering the possibility that our behavior has been or is
detrimental to others. It can be a very productive undertaking for self-assessment and examination. — Eileen Schmitz

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't. — John G. Schmitz

By learning these eternal truths, not only will you prepare your family for a better future and change your family history forever, you will also gain all of the self-confidence you need. You'll wake up every day excited about being alive that day, and know that today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow will be even better than today. You will be linked to the chain of prosperity. — Celso Cukierkorn

When in the world did anyone die from a dream? — Lisa See

Dante.
He loved me so deep and so hard that I was blinded by it.
I thought it was a miracle. I was so young, so impressionable, so infatuated.
So stupid. For years and years, all I had the sense to do was bask in it.
I let our love rule my life. It was everything to me. — R.K. Lilley

You talk so sweet I bet you have to suck on salt for half and hour to get the taste of sugar out of your mouth. — Orson Scott Card

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low. — Kevin Smith