Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Quotes to Explore
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.
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Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
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Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.
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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.
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I am always learning.
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
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With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.
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I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.
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Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.
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I love old moons. There is something humanized about them; they are dulled a little, and rich in color. One can stare all night at an old moon.
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
