Selma Burke Quotes & Sayings

I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush. — Tatiana Maslany

But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin. — Orson Scott Card

Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into situations in which they feel driven to humiliate themselves. Which is why we love them, especially when it's all in the name of love. He is the Bard of Embarrassment. — David Edelstein

Without proper rest during the weekend our new week could be unproductive. — Sunday Adelaja

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through. — E.L. Doctorow

Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss. — Sally Hawkins

We as a species must make a decision. How absurd that sounds. It sounds absurd because we've never made a decision as a species, and it seems implausible to think that we could. But . . . continuing on our present course would threaten the entirety of human civilization. . . We could well have only a decade within which to make major changes lest we lose the opportunity to retrieve a climate balance that is favorable for human life and human civilization. Al Gore, U.S. Vice President, 1993-2001 — George A. Seielstad

I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President. — Tony Tan

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment. — Eden Phillpotts

I always knew I'd be a sailor. In my cradle, playing with my toes, I knew it. What else could there have been? The sailors had made my blood move before I was born, I now believe. As my mother stood one night upon the shit-smelling Bermondsey shore with me in her belly, the sailors had sung out there across the great river, and their siren song had come to the shell-pink enormity that was my listening ear newly formed in the amniotic fluid.
Or so I believe. — Carol Birch

I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top ... Strong and warm, the summer wind. — Alicia Ostriker

Conversation over coffee tended to be candid and invited confidences. — Joanne Fluke

You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so. — Reb Anderson