Silverio Palacios Quotes & Sayings

Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous. — Chloe Thurlow

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence. — Alison Bechdel

I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives. — Jack Davenport

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

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life. — Ethel Waters

I find it inordinately hard to speak about my other brother. He is a mere shadow in the background of my richest and most detailed recollections. It is one of those lives that hopelessly claim a belated something
compassion, understanding, no matter what
which the mere recognition of such a want can neither replace nor redeem. — Vladimir Nabokov

There's always that seventh-grade girl who looks like she's 25. And you're like, How do you do it? How do you do it, Sarah Jaxheimer?Why is your hair always so shiny?! — Taylor Swift

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more. — John Lancaster Spalding

The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" [the whole is larger than the part] may be applied without proof only in the case of entities that are based upon whole and part; then and only then is it an undeniable consequence of the concepts "totum" and "pars". Unfortunately, however, this "axiom" is used innumerably often without any basis and in neglect of the necessary distinction between "reality" and "quantity", on the one hand, and "number" and "set", on the other, precisely in the sense in which it is generally false. — Georg Cantor

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. — C.S. Forester

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. — Robert Breault

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted. — Scott Thompson

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting. — Benjamin Franklin