Strangis Obituary Quotes & Sayings

It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit. — Michel De Montaigne

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness. — Chris Toumazou

I am wrapped round with phrases, like damp straw; I glow, phosphorescent. — Virginia Woolf

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again. — Caprice Bourret

If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly. — Helen Thomas

How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them. — Meryl Streep

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar? — Kahlil Gibran

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc. — James Surowiecki

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving. — Alan Cranston