Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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BirdWithoutMissUsWellGet

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

Jodelle Ferland

CharacterMePlayWantWhoLike

To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy.

John Lithgow

LifeFatherMeConsistencySecurity

I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

StoryThinkingSomeoneKindWhyUs

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Ani DiFranco

BeautyPoetryWindEasyYouWall

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

Stanley Tucci

YouWantMakeMovieGotta

Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons.

Steve Stockman

AlcoholProveWayNeedWeapons

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

Don Winslow

InfluenceKidReadShakespeare

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'

Johnny Flynn

GodThinkBackLooksDoneEveryone

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Desmond Tutu

FamilyGodCompassionYouDreamUs

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Christiaan Barnard

LifeMedicalBelieveDoingCreate

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

Christopher Atkins

LikeEverybodyWantsEverybody Else

Curvy models are becoming more and more vocal about the isolating nature of the term 'plus-size.' We are calling ourselves what we want to be called - women, with shapes that are our own.

Ashley Graham

NatureWomenWantMoreCurvyOwn

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