Sewell Quotes & Sayings

I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England. — Rufus Sewell

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's ... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience. — Anna Sewell

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted. — Rufus Sewell

I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life. — Rufus Sewell

The only wonder was that he should be in an under situation and not in the place of a head coachman like York; — Anna Sewell

I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart. — Rufus Sewell

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. — Anna Sewell

Joe Sewell is the toughest strikeout in baseball history. In 14 seasons he struck out only 114 times - he never struck out three times in a game, and he struck out twice in a game on only two occasions. So how is it possible that a 30-year-old pitcher who won eight games and recorded 54 strikeouts - in his career - fanned Sewell twice in one game? I don't know, but he did, in 1923. — Tucker Elliot

Health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, — Anna Sewell

I don't think I'll ever be a person who likes to work out. — Conrad Sewell

Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him "Granny" Lee or "The King Of Spades," because he insisted that his men dig trenches on Sewell Mountain. — Clint Johnson

we are only horses, and don't know. — Anna Sewell

I think videos are really hard. I'm yet to be happy with a video. It's very weird watching yourself on camera, which I guess I'm going to have to get used to. I love the thought of being in them, but it's one thing to say that and another to actually do it. — Conrad Sewell

He is called the horse — Anna Sewell

For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else. — Rufus Sewell

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is ... — Anna Sewell

There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots. — Justin Sewell

I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while. — Rufus Sewell

If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow. — Anna Sewell

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. — Anna Sewell

But he had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men. — Anna Sewell

Head, pricked his ears, and said, "There are the hounds!" and — Anna Sewell

If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't. — Anna Sewell

He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark. — Anna Sewell

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play. — Anna Sewell

When English author Anna Sewell wrote Black Beauty, in the late nineteenth century, she said that her aim was to "induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses." Though now considered a children's classic, the book was originally intended for an adult audience. Narrated from the horse's point of view, the novel describes Black Beauty's life, from his earliest memory, of "a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it" to his wretched existence pulling a heavy load for a cruel peddler. The sentimental and emotionally wrenching book was wildly popular, quickly becoming a bestseller first in England and then in the United States, where it became a favorite of the progressive movement. Sewell's book was the first to popularize interest in the plight of the horse and to generate widespread concern about the beast of burden's treatment. — Elizabeth Letts

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome. — Rufus Sewell

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. — Rufus Sewell

This horse has got a good master, and he deserves it. — Anna Sewell

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am. — Rufus Sewell

What right had they to make me suffer like that? — Anna Sewell

The Hiltons know how to put on a good wedding, that's all I can say. — Conrad Sewell

My grandfather was like Australia's Tom Jones. — Conrad Sewell

I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life. — Marilyn Sewell

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, 'Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right. — Anna Sewell

A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself. — Rufus Sewell

I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills. — Terri Sewell

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Robert Sewell

Alex pushed open the door to Sewell Hall and rushed inside, breathing heavily and wishing she hadn't worn her corset stays quite so tight this morning. "Vanity be damned," she huffed to herself. "Loveliness will do me no good with Blackmoor if I drop dead from lack of air before he sees me. — Sarah MacLean

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. - — Anna Sewell

Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead. — George Sewell

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Doubt we were very foolish, but danger seemed to be all round, and there was nobody we knew to trust in, and all was strange and uncertain. The fresh air that had come in through the open door made it easier to breathe, but the rushing sound overhead grew louder, and as I looked — Anna Sewell

You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I really had a great appreciation for the struggle that took place. — Terri Sewell

Nothing says "you're a loser" more than owning a motivational poster about being a winner. — Justin Sewell

'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous. — Rufus Sewell

A woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

And as to being quick, why, bless you! That is only a matter of habit; if you get into the habit of being quick, it is just as easy as being slow; easier, I should say; in fact, it don't agree with my health to be hulking about over a job twice as long as it need take. Bless you! I couldn't whistle if I crawled over my work as some folks do! — Anna Sewell

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change. — Rufus Sewell

Why on earth did she do this?" I asked Bubba Sewell. "Do you know?" "When she came in to make her will, last year when there was all that trouble with the club you two were in, she said that this was the best way she knew to make sure someone never forgot her. She didn't want her name up on a building somewhere. She wasn't a" - the lawyer searched for the right words - "philanthropist. Not a public person. She wanted to leave her money to an individual, not a cause, and I don't think she ever got along well with Parnell and Leah - do you know them? — Charlaine Harris

I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights. — Rufus Sewell

life is, but a dream is not — A.H. Sewell

We become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Hollywood is my domestic idyll. — Rufus Sewell

Teach every child you meet the importance of forgiveness. It's our only hope of surviving their wrath once they realize just how badly we've screwed things up for them. — Justin Sewell

I'd like an omelet named after me. — Rufus Sewell

And that when he was past work he should be shot and buried. — Anna Sewell

I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. — Rufus Sewell

It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am. — Rufus Sewell

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective. — Rufus Sewell

I said, 'I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.'
Ah!' said [Captain], 'I should think they never saw it. No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade, and sham-fight. Yes, it is very fine then; but when thousands of good brave men and horses are killed, or crippled for life, it has a very different look.'
Do you know what they fought about?' said I.
No,' he said, 'that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them. — Anna Sewell

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge. — Rufus Sewell

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you. — Rufus Sewell

For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in. — Rufus Sewell

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity. — Rufus Sewell

Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to. — Conrad Sewell

TEAMWORK: A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction. — Justin Sewell

I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise. — Rufus Sewell

Do you know why this world is as bad as it is? ... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light ... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. — Anna Sewell

I want to be remembered as a great performer. — Conrad Sewell

When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we're always one Supreme Court justice vote away from losing the progress that has been made. — Terri Sewell

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions. — Rufus Sewell

I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily. — Rufus Sewell

He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse. — Anna Sewell

Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson. — Anna Sewell

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. — Rufus Sewell

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness. — Brian Sewell

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it. — Terri Sewell

Very soon the train came puffing up into the station; then two or three minutes, and the doors were slammed to, the guard whistled, and the train glided away, leaving behind it only clouds of white smoke and some very heavy hearts. — Anna Sewell

It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship. — Rufus Sewell

The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct ... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing ... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures? — Anna Sewell

When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteor hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteorite. — Justin Sewell

Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back. — Terri Sewell

Collaboration is really important. — Terri Sewell

Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose. — Rufus Sewell

It is good people who make good places. — Anna Sewell

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could. — Rufus Sewell

I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like. — Conrad Sewell

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way. — Anna Sewell

My troubles are over, and I am finally home. — Anna Sewell

To come home and have three songs working on radio, I can't tell you how happy I am. It is amazing. — Conrad Sewell

There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their religion, but
if it does not teach them to be good
and kind to man and beast,
it is all a sham. — Anna Sewell

You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are. — Conrad Sewell

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees. — Anna Sewell

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting. — Rufus Sewell