Beatrice Lillie Quotes
In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.Beatrice Lillie
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
Eavan Boland -
Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
Bear Grylls -
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Samantha Power -
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
Yaya DaCosta -
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid -
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
Kate Atkinson -
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
Gary Numan -
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
Ted Rall -
There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
Patrick J. Adams -
There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
Kate Christensen
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
Vikram Patel -
I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
Ted Sarandos -
I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.
Ian Somerhalder -
Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
J. D. Hayworth -
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
Harrison Ford -
If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
Haley Reinhart
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"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.
Richard Holbrooke -
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
Henry David Thoreau -
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
Sophocles -
I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
Fatou Bensouda -
I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!
Olivia Colman -
In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.
Beatrice Lillie