Oscar Wilde Quotes
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
Quotes to Explore
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.
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You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
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Anything can happen when people run for office.
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And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
