Acquitting Quotes

#1. I wouldn't have minded a rather more detailed conclusion (to Pride and Prejudice) - say, a twenty-page sex scene featuring the two principals, with Mr. Darcy, furthermore, acquitting himself uncommonly well.

Martin Amis

#2. I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy.

Ridley Scott

#3. I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

John Hodgman

#4. The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.

Minhal Mehdi

#5. I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

Umberto Eco

#6. Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.

Stephen Colbert

#7. Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Wolcott Gibbs

#8. If you look at the whole package, with everything Henry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the ball in the right place and his acceleration will take him past any defender in the world.

Dennis Bergkamp

#9. Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Anthony Doerr

#10. But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

Tom Jenkinson

#11. It never ends, Pinya says. Every time, you think maybe this here is a different world, but it's all the same: they live, we die. So here it is again.

Aleksandar Hemon

#12. Ender's Game is not simply a story of an exceptional child who must outwit aliens in order to save the human race - it is the story of an exceptional child who fears he is a monster and is tricked into doing something monstrous.

Orson Scott Card

#13. Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers.

Susan J. Ellis

#14. But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?

Alison Weir

#15. You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly ... what he is saying inwardly.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Good habits are enormously freeing - we accomplish good things almost on autopilot. One study from Duke University found that more than 40 percent of the actions people take every day aren't decisions, but habits. Good habits free us, but when sin becomes a habit, our souls lose their freedom.

John Ortberg