John Webster Quotes

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

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• I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Myself
  • Feel
  • One Word

• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Difficult
  • Pleasure
  • Bear

• Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Girl
  • Smart
  • Bookish

• Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

  

  Larry King
  • School
  • Ahead
  • Graduated

• There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Men
  • Long

• When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Try

• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Experience
  • Without
  • Makes

• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Mentor

• I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Eyes
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Very

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • End
  • President
  • Arts

• I'm not hard to get along with.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Hard
  • Get
  • Along

• There are a thousand ways to play any role.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Play
  • Ways
  • Thousand

• I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Loved
  • Psychology
  • Self-Worth

• I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Kind
  • Pleasure
  • Guilty

• I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Possible
  • Evidence
  • Dreaming

• I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• I don't have a gym membership. I usually do a bit of basic yoga or stretches at home or in my dressing room before the show. I've done plank for 60 seconds almost every day since 2009, when I had to wear a bikini onstage in 'South Pacific.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Done
  • Home
  • Day

• Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Political
  • Failure

• In the larger scale of things, his opinions didn’t count anyhow. The politicians made the decisions, and the voters paid no attention.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Attention

• In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Support

• Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

  

  John Webster
  • Friends