Elaine A. Cannon Quotes

Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

Elaine A. Cannon

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• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Acting

• I would definitely love to be a parent.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Love
  • Parent
  • Definitely

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Son

• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Love
  • Born
  • For Her

• I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Hate
  • Find
  • Conservative

• The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Islamic

• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Die
  • Rest

• The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Practice
  • Mirror

• A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • People
  • Men
  • Interesting

• And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Live
  • Die

• I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Imagination

• Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Simple

• Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Blessed

• Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.

  

  Chris D'Elia
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

  

  Philip Guston
  • Night
  • Morning

• People who do not have funny in them are not funny when they read funny lines. Sorry. Just doesn't work that way. Seriously, this is the biggest rule of all. You live and die with your casting decisions. Your actors are the heart and soul of the whole thing. Without brilliant actors, you will not have a brilliant film.

  

  David Dobkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.

  

  Warren Giles
  • Game
  • Star
  • Winning

• Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Content
  • Task

• Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Sassy
  • Harlots

• My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Truth
  • Artist
  • Goal

• Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

  

  Elaine A. Cannon
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Inside