One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
Helen Hayes
Recitation: by Male by Female
In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.
Joan Didion
ChangePeopleMindMeWritingWay
President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.
Meghan McCain
MediaPresidentMoreNarrativePoker
All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.
Robert Green Ingersoll
GoodHeartManWorldPunishmentHim
Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.
Stephen Root
BusinessCharacterThinkThinking
One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.
Simon Rattle
CommunicationMusicThinkLanguage
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
Christopher Hitchens
LiveTimePeopleWishStatistics
My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.
Cher
MotherGreatArtCreativePainting
My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my dad taught himself how to frame pictures, and then he was a curator at an art gallery in the city I'm from. I'm an only child.
Ari Millen
ArtChildParentsCityPicturesShe
What is the role of a public intellectual in the age of Twitter and soundbites? Is it to share your thoughts for the public good, or is it to curate the heaps of hate emails, tweets, and right-wing articles that trash your intellectual and social work?
Anthea Butler
WorkGoodAgeHateThoughtsTrash
I've been playing as early as I can recall. I don't even remember the first time I picked up a basketball.
Anne Donovan
TimeBasketballRememberEarlyI Can
Living is a constant source of inspiration.
Sylvia Day
LivingInspirationSourceConstant
I have a big cynical side to me.
Peter Dinklage
MeSideBigCynical
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Helen Hayes