Elizabeth Hoyt Quotes

Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.

Elizabeth Hoyt

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• Engraved
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• Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Future
  • Change
  • Aim

• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Need
  • Mine

• The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Giving
  • Creative
  • Act

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

  

  Dan Burton
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Dad

• I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Man
  • City

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  

  Ed Wood
  • People
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dance
  • Used
  • Ballet

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Inspiration
  • Actor

• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Too Much

• My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Family
  • Song
  • Parents

• The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • She
  • Water

• They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Who

• My wife would probably tell you I'm quite a dark person all the time!

  

  Jack Thorne
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Dark

• But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heaven
  • Sorrow
  • Glory

• Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Engraved