Stremize Quotes & Sayings

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role. — Christian Slater

Silence took over for a full hour. They drove on. He didn't care anymore. They saw the sign for the next service station twenty minutes after they joined the M5 southbound. He didn't know what they were doing, where they were going."

From 'The Journey' (Banfield Tales) — Michael Braccia

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week. — Amanda Seyfried

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What's the use - when you will go back? he broke out, a great hopeless How on earth can I keep you? crying out to her beneath his words. — Edith Wharton

Only memories have a future. — Ljupka Cvetanova

What is coping? This is what it is like: a cave underground deep in rock, hung across its roof with accretions of dripping salts. I am cavernous and hard as mineral. The cave holds a pool of dark water that has not seen light. The water is very cold; it is undrinkable and its size is unmapped. It is mine, but people cannot see it. Only Ev sometimes senses that it is there. All the time people say that I am coping very well. It is impossible to explain my strategy to them. It is opaque even to me. — Marion Coutts

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. — W. Somerset Maugham

Patience has all the time it needs. — Allan Lokos

There is good and reason in us ... with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than ... fate, if only for a few hours. ... we can draw closer to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. — Hermann Hesse

In terms of a comedy plan I don't really have a list of what I want accomplish. I'm just riding the wave! I think I will always come back to stand-up and comedy in all its forms. I just don't think it will ever be the one sole thing I do. — Doc Brown

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own. — Brassai

I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things. — Don Yaeger

Nothing's changed, we said to ourselves. The war had been an interruption, nothing more. We would pick up our lives where we had left off and go on. We would go back to school again. We would study hard, every day, to make up for lost time. We would seek out our old classmates. "Where were you?" they'd ask, or maybe they would just nod and say, "Hey." We would join their clubs, after school, if they let us. We would listen to their music. We would dress just like they did. We would change our names to sound more like theirs. And if our mother called out to us on the street by our real names we would turn away and pretend not to know her. We would never be mistaken for the enemy again! — Julie Otsuka