Tailleferre Mary Quotes & Sayings

It's quite impressive. You must be skilled with a blade."
"I prefer the bow. Perhaps we could go for a hunt sometime. I could impress you with my very unladylike talents."
As soon as the words escape my mouth, I realize how it sounded and I flush deep crimson. — Sherry D. Ficklin

That's one thing about my shows. I tell people, I'm not a comedian, I'm just a really funny reporter. I put my life out there and make it entertaining. By putting it out there, it helps me to deal with it, you know, so I don't snap and so I don't go off the handle when I get home. — Gabriel Iglesias

I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn't all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I'd like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin. — Jo Walton

You should have held me tight. You should have grabbed me and held on. — August Wilson

The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production — Louis Althusser

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.' — Steve McQueen

Your art not only doesn't have to be original, in other words; it also doesn't have to be important. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go! — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don't use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate - perfectionism - an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success - an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit. — Sarah Lewis

But now that person is gone — Natalie Lloyd