Settanta Shift Quotes & Sayings

When children ask me what's my favorite [role], I say to them, "Imagine having ten beautiful new puppies in a basket and you had to say which one is your favorite, and you simply couldn't because you love them all for different reasons." POPPINS was such a learning experience, as was THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I tell you, every one of them just helped me grow in what I do and did and each one was such a phenomenal working experience. — Julie Andrews

They want the PK to dress like a grandparent and behave like Jesus. But they also seem to wait for the time when the pastor's daughter makes out and the son drinks beer. — Barnabas Piper

Stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. — Kelly Cutrone

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. — Umberto Eco

From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing. — Abbas Kiarostami

Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross. — John Of The Cross

Folk-tales are, at best, generally no more than lies set in rhyme. — Stephen King

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else. — Richard Engel

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction. — Katherine Anne Porter

Illegibility
of this world. All things twice over.
The strong clocks justify
the splitting hour,
hoarsely.
You , clamped
into your deepest part,
climb out of yourself
for ever. — Paul Celan

You have all the hallmarks of a seeker ... You chase special knowledge. You find threads of connections and then share them with people who need them. I can read it in the way you looked at me, the questions you ask, but more importantly, the ones you don't. — M.J. Rose

It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to. — Nicholas Mosley

I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human. — Helen Oyeyemi

Failure is not an end-point, but amendment to suit your success — Binye Vincent

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that. — Bill Maher