Venereal Syphilis Quotes & Sayings

That's the problem with the Internet: You do a naked scene and then it's taken out of context and put on websites that have nothing to do with film. — Clemence Poesy

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page. — Kathleen Battle

It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. — W.C. Fields

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. — Karl Kraus

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do. — James Van Der Beek

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience. — Peter Sellers

Hours passed. A man came by twice and poked his head into my theater and looked at me questioningly. The third time, he came in and sat next to me and asked, "How many times you plan on watching this crap?" I shrugged my shoulders. He was wearing corduroy pants, and I would have liked to drag my fingernail across his thigh. "You hiding?" "I'm just sitting here," I said. "Yeah, never mind," he said. "I guess you're a bit young for that. What about your folks? — Justin Torres

So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist. — Jennifer Bosworth

I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago. — Wyclef Jean

Art is art and life is life, but to live life artistically; that is the art of life — Peter Altenberg

A new kind of award has been added
the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television. — Marlene Dietrich

I Survived the Black Plague — Cynthia Hand

People don't change. Things do. — Boris Vian

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church. — Robert Godfrey