Understudying Quotes & Sayings

You are a shadow of the person you are following or understudying — Ikechukwu Joseph

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like. — Francesca Lia Block

A victor's mentality becomes a victor's reality. — Joel Osteen

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. — Thomas Paine

Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed by humans, done was done. If a man spent his life looking over his shoulder at every possible branching of his path he could have taken, he would never accomplish anything. One must learn from history so as not to repeat it, but one must not waste one's energy or time worrying about what might have been. Sorry ... but people die every day and the galaxy continues on quite well without them. Consider yourself lucky you are one of those as yet unselected by the Fates. — Steve Perry

The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth. — Walter Raleigh

The storm was resting. It didn't want to be, but it was. It had spent a fortnight understudying a famous anticyclone over the Circle Sea, turning up every day, hanging around in the cold front, grateful for a chance to uproot the occasional tree or whirl a farmhouse to any available emerald city of its choice. But the big break in the weather had never come. — Terry Pratchett

I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people, but often I'm more interested in what I'm learning in the relationship I have with myself. — Mike White

Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time. — PLO Lumumba

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger. — Tina Turner

No news is good news. — C.M. Stunich

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob. — Jennifer Garner

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff. — Roger McGuinn

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years. — Bryan Singer

The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity. — William J. Mitchell

How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else! — Richard Le Gallienne