Act 4 Pygmalion Quotes

#1. Death is going to take the boundaries away from us, that we should no more be persons. That's what death is about. When that is what life also wants to be about, how can you feel except rebellious?

Saul Bellow

#2. It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not understand why such people had been born. "It's nothing but damned eccentricity to want to be dry" he would say. "I've been wet more than half my life and never been a whit the worse for it.

Halldor Laxness

#3. That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground
or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.

Shirley Hazzard

#4. The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.

Alexander Elder

#5. Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.

Pico Iyer

#6. Maybe my descendants will make better choices where I failed."
"Your descendants? Are you planning on having a lot of descendants?"
"One day I'd like a whole army of tiny vigilantes."
"A worthy goal.

Jodi Meadows

#7. Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Julia Cameron

#8. We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Phyllis Bottome

#9. Moff Tarkin sends his regards.

James Luceno

#10. pick pocketed your own pocket

Brian Manning

#11. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

#12. Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.

Stephen Covey

#13. Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.

Jonathan Galassi

#14. Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

Michael Johnson

#15. Well that woman has crept into my mind. Somehow, she has stolen my very sanity because now I want her hands on me. I begged for her to touch me until I, too, lost myself in the beauty of a fantasy- a fantasy I still don't fully understand.

Ella Frank

#16. Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

William Kunstler