Jessica Chastain Quotes

My favourite smell is the smell of cut grass, and the sound of sprinklers going on.

Jessica Chastain

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• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Shadows

• But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Play
  • Impossible
  • September

• Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Remember
  • Prayer

• I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Live
  • Taken

• I'm (Eugene) probably goin' to be promoted, and it'll be more than twenty bucks you'll get then, you just wait. You'll have enough to live on, Ma (Rose-Anna). You won't have to scrape all your life, the rest of us'll see to that.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Life
  • Live
  • Rest

• Your experience cautions that progress is neither easy nor quick.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Experience
  • Progress

• There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Movie

• You'll never get my mind rightlike 2 ships passing in the night.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Mind
  • Night

• We - mankind - stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device - our consciousness of the crisis - as our unique contribution.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Unique

• I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

  

  Bob Graham
  • Confidence

• In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.

  

  Marc Faber
  • People
  • Bubbles

• It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Different

• When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Attention

• But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Life
  • Important
  • Vision

• I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

  

  Kiersey Clemons
  • Friends
  • Funny
  • Perspective

• I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • People

• Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

  

  James Buchan
  • Wisdom

• Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Children
  • Good Mother
  • Blesses

• Only the corrupt or the stupid person falls for the open bribe, there are other methods, more insidious, harder to detect, by which the same results are achieved. The favor granted, the casual present bestowed on the unwary, the conferring of benefits that make a decent human being feel indebted. Of all the warnings the one to remain freshest in my memory is Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • Corrupt
  • Falls
  • Bribe

• The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Feel
  • Medicine
  • Medical

• Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Good
  • Girl

• My favourite smell is the smell of cut grass, and the sound of sprinklers going on.

  

  Jessica Chastain