Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
Zach Braff -
You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
Pamela Anderson -
Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
Edward St Aubyn -
I have found an honest and excellent man Eugène Manet, brother of Edouard Manet who, I believe, sincerely loves me. I have entered into the positive life after having lived for a long time in by chimeras.
Berthe Morisot -
Only good questions deserve good answers.
Oscar Wilde -
perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.
Martha Gellhorn
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Bill Vaughan -
I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.
Bobby Bragan -
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
C. S. Lewis -
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle -
A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
William Shakespeare
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
Charlotte Bronte -
I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
Sam Rockwell -
I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself.
Bernadette Roberts -
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
Nathaniel Parker Willis