Threadbare Cider Quotes & Sayings

Our men have been real Frenchmen, and their wives
I may say it
have been worthy of them. You may see all their portraits at our house in Auvergne; every one of them an "injured" beauty, but not one of them hanging her head. Not one of them had the bad taste to be jealous ... These are great traditions, and it doesn't seem to me fair that a little American bourgeoise should come in and pretend to alter them, and should hang her photograph, with her obstinate little "air penche — Henry James

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so? — Deanna Raybourn

Never let people see what you want, because they will not let you have it. Never let anybody see what you feel, because it gives them too much power. You're probably better off not showing weakness whenever you can avoid it, because they'll go for you. — Mike Nichols

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. — M. Night Shyamalan

There is a soul behind that screen. — Mandy Majors

In the name of speed, Morse and Vail had realized that they could save strokes by reserving the shorter sequences of dots and dashes for the most common letters. But which letters would be used most often? Little was known about the alphabet's statistics. In search of data on the letters' relative frequencies, Vail was inspired to visit the local newspaper office in Morristown, New Jersey, and look over the type cases. He found a stock of twelve thousand E's, nine thousand T's, and only two hundred Z's. He and Morse rearranged the alphabet accordingly. They had originally used dash-dash-dot to represent T, the second most common letter; now they promoted T to a single dash, thus saving telegraph operators uncountable billions of key taps in the world to come. Long afterward, information theorists calculated that they had come within 15 percent of an optimal arrangement for telegraphing English text. — James Gleick

The past may dictate who we are, but we get to determine what we become. — Stephen Spielberg

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century, — Herbie Hancock

The past is the past. It may be the reason why we've become who we are today, but we can change our tomorrow. Another past is seconds away. — Nashoda Rose

What the ever-loving knuckle fuck? — Kristen Callihan

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him. — Terry Zwigoff

Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions? — Jeanette Winterson

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors. — Sidney Lumet