Anna Torv Quotes

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

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• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • You
  • Dog

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Death
  • Name

• Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Car

• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
  • Know

• Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Window

• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Up
  • Done
  • Down

• You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • May
  • Door

• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  

  Iman
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Find

• One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Religious

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Myself
  • Try
  • I Can

• To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Career
  • Learning
  • Beginning

• Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • Party
  • Texas

• My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Real
  • She
  • Comedy

• I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.

  

  John Sayles
  • Up
  • Style

• The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • Different
  • Long
  • Power

• The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.

  

  Bob Marley
  • People
  • Heart
  • Song

• I'm a terrible golfer.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel

• Wie langeDauern die Werke? So langeAls bis sie fertig sind.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Die

• Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

  

  Anna Torv
  • War
  • Amazing
  • Scary