Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes

It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies from publicists explaining that their clients are on set and too busy to reply.

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• I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Learned
  • Irish
  • German

• I take a lot of pictures.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Take
  • Pictures
  • Lot

• Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Season
  • Starting

• Despotism is a long crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Crime
  • Despotism

• I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Want

• When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Happy
  • Bear
  • Exchange

• When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Men
  • Words
  • Find

• I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Story

• Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moment

• Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Age
  • Control

• My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Thinking
  • Black
  • Comedy

• As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Text

• I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Long
  • Learning

• Just like Lara Jean in my book 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before,' I used to write letters to boys I was in love with - letters full of emotion and longing and also recrimination - but they were for my eyes only.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Book
  • Eyes

• I never thought of myself as being limited to fashion. I'm a designer, and if you have a vision, you can apply that to anything.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Fashion
  • Vision

• Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • American

• How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

  

  William Blake
  • Know
  • Bird
  • Senses

• Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • People
  • World
  • History

• They done Wrong Like ink from a busted pen Thrown away 'cause of someone else Used up But he come back Dressed in night Fine as a king With his queen The wrong Made right So right.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• To saucy doubts and fears.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Doubt

• The author of Amelia, the most singular genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in secret.

  

  George Borrow
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Author

• It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies from publicists explaining that their clients are on set and too busy to reply.

  

  Nell Scovell