Twitchettes Quotes & Sayings

I've been auditioning since I'm nine years old. Honestly, most of my friends I've met in audition rooms because you're always auditioning. — Kether Donohue

A modern woman sees a piece of linen, but the mediaeval woman saw through it to the flax fields, she smelt the reek of the retting ponds, she felt the hard rasp of the hackling, and she saw the soft sheen of the glossy flax. Man did not see 'just leather', he saw the beast - perhaps one of his own - and knew the effort of slaughtering, liming and curing.
Communities were smaller and whether our man lived on the outskirts of some feudal system, had escaped from it, or was entirely isolated, he would work alone, or daily with the same fellow-workers - conversation would soon languish.
But THINK he must. — Dorothy Hartley

a dramatic increase in the collective power and ostensible success of our species went hand in hand with much individual suffering. — Yuval Noah Harari

I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society - with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos. — Kenzaburo Oe

So, the wooden stake through the heart thing is apparently a myth, but you can be killed by fire. Anything else?"
"Should I be concerned that one of your first questions is how to kill me?"
Her jaw dropped. "What? No! I didn't mean ... I was just curious."
He snorted. "Well you can remain so."
"What about the sun?" she asked. "Extra toasty?"
"I'm not going to burst into flames, but I avoid tanning beds."
"Silver?"
"Some of my favorite cufflinks."
"Garlic?"
"Please," he sneered. "I'm Italian. — Elizabeth Hunter

Don't worry Corelli, girls love a guy who can cry. — Cath Crowley

Some memories find a permanent place in the heart, and we remember those times as being sunlit and beautiful — Anamika Mishra

If he couldn't appreciate the passion and beauty in you than that's his shame, not yours."--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves — Naima Simone

Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing." — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing. — Eddie Bernice Johnson

What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn't give. He stays rigid. Doesn't even try to listen, just lashes out. — Harper Lee

Bruce Forsyth is my hero, and the thought that I'd be in a TV show with him was incredible. — Anton Du Beke