The Right To Speak Patsy Rodenburg Quotes & Sayings

The Rival
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Both of you are great light borrowers.
Her O-mouth grieves at the world; yours is unaffected,
And your first gift is making stone out of everything.
I wake to a mausoleum; you are here,
Ticking your fingers on the marble table, looking for cigarettes,
Spiteful as a woman, but not so nervous,
And dying to say something unanswerable.
The moon, too, abuses her subjects,
But in the daytime she is ridiculous.
Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand,
Arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity,
White and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide.
No day is safe from news of you,
Walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me. — Sylvia Plath

We are mere mortal. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people. — Lord George Gordon

A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it. — Paul Newman

Live with purpose. — Chioma Nkemdilim

Alessandro gathered her into his arms and flipped her over so that she was on top of him, her blonde hair falling over him like a gold curtain. The strands tickled his face as she righted herself over him. She caught her lower lip between her teeth as he pushed up inside of her, and Alessandro reached up, bringing her mouth down, wanting to taste that swollen lip. Her breath wafted over his face, and he grabbed her hips, pulling her down as he pushed up deeper, wanting to fill her to her very soul. — E. Jamie

Trust me-the day I'm not into football, I'll walk away. — Edgerrin James

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have. — Plato

Keeping silent when you witness injustice is to act against your own spirituality, because nothing exists apart from your inner world. — Daniel Marques

The problem with those honorable men," Avi says, "is that they expect everyone else to be honorable in the same way. — Neal Stephenson

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. — Henry Van Dyke