The Good Soldier Key Quotes & Sayings

After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, 'That's fine. We support you, but you have to go to school,' which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway; I enjoy it. — Josie Loren

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain. — Ovid

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. — Tom Waits

Like it was different up here with him now. Less solitary.More complete.The freedom to be and the freedom to enjoy. — Barbara Delinsky

What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and silence. It is not discipline, but something that festers inside a child, arousing his rebellious feelings. — Maria Montessori

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

[The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no.] If they come, ... Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic for them, Godwilling. — Uday Hussein

leaving. doesn't mean that you've left. — Nayyirah Waheed

I hardly look at myself in the mirror ... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave. — Pamela Hanson

'That another one of your rules, Bit? No touching, no kissing, no flirting?'
'You forgot no calling me Bit.'
'Yeah, I don't like that one. I don't think I like the no flirting either.' — J.L. Langley

When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Shit! Those sons a bitches Russians! — Mal Peet

Love hurts us all, no matter how old or young we are. — Jess Rothenberg