Speakable Merchandise Quotes & Sayings

No picture should lower the moral standards of those who see it. — Ben Shapiro

In another corner Nathaniel murmured to Maura, "You must know, Miss O'Connell, I ... I loved you even before I saw you. It was your father's way of talking."
Maura shook her head. "You mustn't say that. It's not my dear da's words that should do the wooing," she said gently. "I'd rather be cared for ... for what I am myself."
Nathaniel nodded. "I'll not say more. But I will tell you what I think I'm going to do."
And what is that
I'm going to California to search for gold."
And do you think, Nathaniel Brewster, you'll find it?"
I do. But it won't be as fine as what's here," Nathaniel said with a shy smile. "Maura O'Connell ... will ... will you ... wait for me to come back?"
Maura was silent.
Will you?"
You're a fine young man, Mr. Brewster. I can only say I'll not forget you. — Avi

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent. — Martha Graham

I think a platform is missing its go-go dancer, Sabine. Fey's brutal tone cut through our courtesies. — Andrea Cremer

Knowing the truth about what you believe and longing for the time before you knew it are not mutually exclusive states of being. — Erin Keane

Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life. — Bill Bowerman

When you have a bird on your shoulder, you don't know when it might fly away, so you do everything you can to keep from flying away...
but once you realize it can't escape, then you don't pay attention to it any more. — Tsukasa Hojo

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. — Henry David Thoreau

Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope. — Helen Keller

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong. — Don Bluth

I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with 'In the Valley of Elah.' I said, 'Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax.' And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery. — Paul Haggis

This was the advantage of desire. Desire focused the mind. It eliminated extraneous thought. The greater the desire, the less the burden of the mind. She would like to live her life this way. Perhaps it was how to survive intact. Live to satisfy her desires. Desire only what she could have. — Alexander Maksik

Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started. — Woody Allen