Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!
Elizabeth Gaskell
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
A. R. Rahman
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
Cameron Diaz
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
Rachel Cusk
I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
Oscar de la Renta
I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
Taylor Swift
Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
Gary Krist
I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
Vanessa Bayer
I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
Taylor Kitsch
I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
Lara Flynn Boyle
The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
Bart Stupak
So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
Jackie Cooper
That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
Tavi Gevinson
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves.
Neil Gaiman
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
James Wolcott
Selflessness involves giving up your self. You become a martyr. Like the Hindu kamikaze warriors. These Japanese Hindus chose to give up their lives, and they were killed if they didn't. Imagine what their families felt. One day you have a father, and next, you're watching him fly a plane into a ship on Pearl Harbor on television. Those kids didn't do anything wrong. They just lived in an evil country. The axis of evil. That sort of evil is beyond anything you or I will experience in our lifetimes. So be glad. Be glad we live in the US of A. Be glad we get to choose, with our freedoms. Now get out there and fight!
Bill Konigsberg
For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.
Laura Hillenbrand
How many people do you know who've had their dream come true? You're looking at one.
Jim Valvano
She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!
Elizabeth Gaskell
