Shantona Quotes & Sayings

I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended up having to hammer him to death. — Alan Dale

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. — Stephen King

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about. — Sigourney Weaver

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington? — J. C. Watts

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

She'd hated spending the daylight hours away from him, hated the distance between them, and she wasn't letting it go on anymore on her side. — J.R. Ward

People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another. — Richard Layard, Baron Layard

At core, no matter how kindly may be your thoughts of the human race, there are times when all you want to do is crumple it up and either set fire to it, or use it to pad the floor of a bird cage.
Big bird cage.
Really big bird. — Harlan Ellison

had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet. — Douglas Adams

Thinking 'economistically', as we have done now for thirty years, is not intrinsic to humans. — Tony Judt

Along the bank there are various other people, but why they come or go, with the slowest of idle steps, or remain seated on their haunches embracing their knees, or keep on gazing at nothing in particular, no one can guess.

The days here drowse all their twelve hours in the sun, and silently sleep away the other twelve, wrapped in the mantle of darkness. The only thing you want to do in a place like this is to gaze and gaze on the landscape, swinging your fancies to and fro, alternately humming a tune and nodding dreamily, as the mother on a winter's noonday, her back to the sun, rocks and croons her baby to sleep. — Rabindranath Tagore

The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation. — John F. Kennedy

The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. — Mark Steyn