Trading Places Famous Quotes & Sayings

If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has passed on its way to us, we should probably become fatalists in face of the apparently overwhelming evidence that there is nothing in us that has not come to us from, or at least through, the Family. Family portrait galleries are a striking confirmation of the persistence of characteristics which ultimately govern the fortunes of successive generations. — Helen Bosanquet

I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?! — L.Joe

No one can ever just accept their life for what it is. — Kim Askew

I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person. — Frank Pittman

There were moments in your life that brought you to your knees. Moments that punched the absolute fuck out of you.
I was having one of those moments.
I thought life had already handed me my heart on a platter. Bleeding and bruised. Turned out life wasn't done with me yet. Bleeding and bruised wasn't enough. — Nina Levine

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience. — Carter Burwell

I don't like to say I'm happy. The Universe always finds out and corrects its mistake. — David Willis

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. — Gene Wolfe

Hal answered him. "We're as sure as we can be. The guard captain said he found a ball of yellow glass. What else could it be?" Jesper shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe a ball of yellow glass? — John Flanagan

While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to. — Kyra Sedgwick

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there. — Michael Crichton

I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen. — Allan McNish

I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it. — J. August Richards

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind. — Julia Ward Howe

In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here was a job where confidence, energy, perhaps even a certain arrogance were all that mattered, all qualities that lay within his grasp. — David Nicholls