Strayhorns Sense Quotes & Sayings

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer ... ("Letter To Stalin") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Have we just been placed here by some unknown creator or force without any clue as to where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going? The answer is "no." We do have a code. We do have a key ... the Bible. — Billy Graham

There's something immoral, voyeuristic, about peering too closely at a person's courage in the face of danger. — Svetlana Alexievich

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. — Glenn Gould

Missed Max but I did not know how much I missed Max until now. Now I know what it feels like to miss someone so much that you can't describe it. I would have to invent new words to describe it. — Matthew Dicks

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. — Louisa May Alcott

Don't always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it'll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows as a river, then merges with the sea, the goes up again as a cloud. — Yasmin