Vbornet Quotes & Sayings

It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime. — Colum McCann

I was 19 when I got my first passport as an adult. I had moved from California to New York City and was living out of a suitcase, staying with friends. I'd just finished filming my first movie, 'Ordinary People,' but I didn't know whether acting was what I wanted to do with my life. — Timothy Hutton

Captain Tervitt had been a real captain, for many years, on the lake boats. Now he had a job as a special constable. He stopped the cars to let the children cross the street in front of the school and kept them from sledding down the side street in winter. He blew his whistle and held up one big hand, which looked like a clown's hand, in a white glove. He was still tall and straight and broad-shouldered, though old and white-haired. Cars would do what he said, and the children, too. — Alice Munro

I'll be fine," I reply. "Why shouldn't I be? Everything's going just . . . perfectly." I give her a tense smile. — Anonymous

We all start out equal, little blobs of blood and muscle. It's a set-up of awesome potential. — Daniel Lugo

more important to love people on their worst days than their best. — Katie Kacvinsky

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally. — Alanna Ubach

And then you opened your mouth. All that love, all that loyalty, all the innocence, even though life had kicked you around time and time again, and all I wanted to do was let some of that sweetness and light touch me. I've never had very clean hands, but the first time I touched you, that first gasp out of that perfect mouth, the first time I thrust into you, God, Dovie, you made me feel like I was the king in a land of second chances." I was stunned. — Jay Crownover

I've lived with you right now and those right nows are everywhere, every time, in my house, on the mountain. I love you. Home is where love is. You're my home. — Lara Avery

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place? — Steve Hagen

Family is at the heart of everything I do. — Blake Lively

My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to Broadway and a friend of mine, Lauren Bacall, was in Hollywood filming with Humphrey Bogart. She told one of her producers I was great in my play, and he saw it and cast me in 'The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'. — Kirk Douglas