Henry David Thoreau Quotes
And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.
Quotes to Explore
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.
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Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.
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I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.
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The primary human need, he decided—stronger than the need for food or sex or love—is the need for recognition, the need to make a mark in the world.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.
