Bastedo Alexandra Quotes

#1. Then, after all the excitement, I shall experience a certain satiation of suffering
perhaps on the mountain pass to a kind of happiness which it is too early for me to know (I know only that when I reach it, it will be with pen in hand).

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.

Alexander Hamilton

#3. Dance is in my background.

Rutina Wesley

#4. Then you try to go to sleep and wake up to face the next day. And the next, until fear is the thing that keeps you sharp instead of the thing that makes you bleed.

Jen Frederick

#5. I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and what plays you put on; the vision comes out of that.

Richard Eyre

#6. All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

Rachel Bilson

#7. For it is a truth, that fortune is inconstant, fickle and mutable.

Hilary Mantel

#8. A man should smell of sweat, not flowers.

George R R Martin