George Washington Quotes
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
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I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
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Here is one of the best bits of advice every given about the fine art of human relationships. 'If there is any one secret of success,' says Henry Ford, 'it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.'
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse
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But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you … more proud...
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Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.
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The danger is, if we're not very frank and strong about this, there will be tit-for-tat arrangements. You get into a situation where it becomes an epidemic.
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The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.
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Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.
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Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.
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My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
