Baisley Pond Quotes

#1. I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.

Natalie Zea

#2. We do more talking progress than we do progressing.

Will Rogers

#3. What happens when you strip away all the masks a man wears and you find not a face beneath them but nothing at all?

Brent Weeks

#4. Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#5. From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.

Nina Garcia

#6. To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.

Christiane Northrup

#7. Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

Taufik Hidayat

#8. I know. And that's what took me so long

Marianne Williamson

#9. My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#10. If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.

Ed Rendell

#11. We have it in us to be splendid.

Maya Angelou

#12. My worst habit is speaking to much

Robert Pattinson

#13. A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Madeleine L'Engle

#14. It wasn't just that I saw in his book, reflected backwards and dimly, my own retreat into wildness. It was this: of all the books I read as a child, his was the only one I remembered where the animal didn't die.

Helen Macdonald