Streatery Quotes & Sayings

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence. — Jonathan Dee

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. — Samuel Beckett

I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity. — Arnulf Rainer

Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens. — Michael York

We gain knowledge from education; we gain wisdom from knowledge and experience. — Debasish Mridha

The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent. — Douglas Alexander

I don't want to be cross, love cannot be forced. There were tears in her eyes as she left the room. — Anne Frank

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest ... I did a lot of walking in Montgomery. — Rosa Parks

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies. — Douglas MacArthur

Find a heart that will love you at your worst, and arms that will hold you at your weakest. — Anonymous