Valensise Quotes & Sayings

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you. — Michael Sheen

So life goes on, I thought. (And now I think: It goes on, until it doesn't.) — Elizabeth Strout

It's not how you look, it's how you feel in the dark — Paula Wall

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire. — Leland Stanford

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since. — Drew Gilpin Faust

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture. — Howard Hodgkin

I have a problem with Mitt Romney. And it's big problem - one that extends beyond our ideological differences. My big concern is that Mitt Romney wants to become president for no other reason than because there's a possibility he can win. — Jennifer Granholm

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness. — Julian Clary

Drawing is the honesty of art. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

It was a mistake of mine to tell the lads that this lot don't score too many goals - and statistically they don't - but then they go and score seven. — Aidy Boothroyd