Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes

“A ninnyhammer,” Jane said, “sounds like a magic hammer. One that I can use to smite ninnies. I have a great need for one of those.

Courtney Milan

• Magic
• Hammer
• Ninnyhammer
• Smite
• Ninnies

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• Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Complete
  • Supreme

• As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Important
  • History
  • Think

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Help

• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Fear
  • Me

• All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Political
  • Like
  • Games

• Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Win
  • Down

• Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Acting
  • Strange
  • Very

• If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Car
  • Season
  • Test

• Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • Control
  • Immigrant

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.

  

  Walter Savage Landor

• I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Country

• History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Men
  • Women
  • History

• If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • People
  • Art
  • Single

• In Selma as elsewhere we seek and pray for peace. We seek order. We seek unity. But we will not accept the peace of stifled rights, or the order imposed by fear, or the unity that stifles protest. For peace cannot be purchased at the cost of liberty.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Fear
  • Peace
  • Unity

• Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Hair
  • Baseball

• In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

  

  David Liss
  • People
  • Past
  • Interesting

• I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Movie
  • Society
  • Violence

• Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Men
  • Passion
  • Failure

• I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no - it's just very airy. And my classical teachers were just so frustrated with me because I would have these deep, low notes that were really strong, and the higher register was strong, but right in that middle area, it was really hard. It was like a passage. And many singers go through this and work it out. But I realized in jazz, I could just take advantage of that and take advantage of having a voice that was very different in different areas.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Air

• “A ninnyhammer,” Jane said, “sounds like a magic hammer. One that I can use to smite ninnies. I have a great need for one of those.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Magic
  • Hammer
  • Ninnyhammer