A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once and by car forever after.
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Havelock Ellis – The absence of flaw in beauty is …
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Agathon – Even God cannot change the past….
Even God cannot change the past.
Madeleine Albright – As strong as the United State…
As strong as the United States is we can’t deal with terrorism alone.
Stevie Nicks – If you have stage fright it never g…
If you have stage fright it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
Cat Stevens – Salman Rushdie indeed any writer who…
Salman Rushdie indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law the sentence for that is actually death.
Liev Schreiber – I think it’s really really import…
I think it’s really really important to mix it up as an actor to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you’re going to do.
Sallust – The fame that goes with wealth and beaut…
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Ben Vereen – Sometimes we look for those thunderou…
Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas the moving of the mountains. But no it’s a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
Robert Browning – Fail I alone in words and deeds?…
Fail I alone in words and deeds? Why all men strive and who succeeds?
Al Yankovic – In the ’80s I was putting out an alb…
In the ’80s I was putting out an album virtually every year I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t people would soon forget about me.
David Hume – Nothing endears so much a friend as s…
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
Vaclav Klaus – To pursue a so-called Third Way is …
To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
Henry James – In art economy is always beauty….
In art economy is always beauty.
Paul Auster – Everything can change at any moment …
Everything can change at any moment suddenly and forever.
Christian Bale – One of the places where we lived …
One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8 I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.
Greg Kinnear – I find fear is a great motivator to…
I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.
Gloria Swanson – Life and death. They are somehow …
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed but I don’t know how.
Cynthia Nixon – I feel that between my experience …
I feel that between my experience and my mother’s breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.
George Henry Lewes – Endeavour to be faithful and …
Endeavour to be faithful and if there is any beauty in your thought your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express the expression will be moving.
Jeremy Renner – I don’t change. The things around …
I don’t change. The things around me change.
Meir Kahane – For so long as the Jew has even one …
For so long as the Jew has even one ally he will be convinced – in his smallness of mind – that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone – against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts – that he will through no choice be compelled to turn to G-d.
Lou Henry Hoover – The independent girl is a perso…
The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand and they it must be confessed with much fear and trembling.
Abu Bakr – Have an earnestness for death and you w…
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Tim Robbins – I wouldn’t say I’m a method actor. I…
I wouldn’t say I’m a method actor. I do research when I feel I don’t have enough experience for the part I’m playing.
Jane Smiley – I discovered that the horse is life …
I discovered that the horse is life itself a metaphor but also an example of life’s mystery and unpredictability of life’s generosity and beauty a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.