Willard Metcalf Quotes & Sayings

One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us. — Edgar Ramirez

This ceremony of approval was a charade - everything had been decided before we got here - and as with all charades it was wanly ebullient, necessary, and thin. — Lorrie Moore

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. — Albert Einstein

When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind. — Donald E. Westlake

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony — John Stott

Standing around making ten dollars an hour - that's what they pay me the big bucks for. — Jarod Kintz

(Skip Litz) was road managing Todd Snider one time, which meant he had to sneak Todd's tiny dog, Lulu, into hotels. In Atlanta, Skip checked Todd into a hotel that didn't accept dogs. Then Skip carried Lulu in his arms, right through the lobby, and a guy behind the hotel desk saw this happening and said, 'Is that a dog?'

Skip looked the guy square in the eye and said, 'No.' Then he and Lulu got on the elevator, and no one said another word about it. — Peter Cooper

One hundred years ago, the Blessed Virgin revealed a mysterious prophecy to three Portuguese shepherd children. — Peter J. Tanous

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. — William Shakespeare

True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the man so often should outlive the lover. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old. For my part, my youth may wear and waste, but it shall never rust in my possession. — William Congreve

You don't give your mum enough credit for raising you, Elle. Look at you. Teenage sweetheart with a sugar shell and strychnine centre. We might as well finish speaking the truth now. — Shirley Marr

Could we please not talk about that woman? — Rick Riordan