Billy Ansel Quotes

#1. But I understood Bear Otto's desire to become a noble man, a man like Billy Ansel, and I respected that, naturally. I just wished the boy had more ways of imagining the thing than by becoming a good soldier. But that's boys, I guess.

Russell Banks

#2. Based on my experience, I've seen where unity amongst the races has yielded positive results. I don't see any other way for people to gain freedom, justice, and equality here except by being internationalist.

Richard Aoki

#3. The only way I could go on living was to believe I was not living.

Russell Banks

#4. I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

Jose Saramago

#5. For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem.

Russell Banks

#6. I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

Michael Rooker

#7. Absorb ideas from every source.

Thomas A. Edison

#8. Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

Neil Armstrong

#9. Photographs of them alive and smiling would have made me cry and fall down and beat the earth with my fists; their actual dead faces only sealed me off from myself.

Russell Banks

#10. For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

Alix Kates Shulman

#11. The mortician interviewing the corpses

Eugene McCarthy

#12. A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

Donald A. Norman

#13. I watched 'Billy Madison' maybe 80 times. It's my favourite movie. Watched it, like, a million times. My brother and sister watched it with me all the time.

Ansel Elgort

#14. I kept driving straight on toward what we called home and could not say aloud the words that were thrashing me, as if somehow by remaining silent I could keep the terrible thing from having occurred.

Russell Banks

#15. There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

Robert Frost

#16. [ ... ] I could no longer believe even in life. Which meant that I had come to be the reverse, the opposite of a Christian. For me, now, the only reality is death.

Russell Banks

#17. Mourning can be very selfish. When someone you love has died, you tend to recall best those few moments and incidents that helped clarify your sense, not of the person who has died, but of your own self.

Russell Banks

#18. The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

C. JoyBell C.

#19. Clark. Superman. She loved two men. It was extraordinary how alike and how different they were.-Lois Lane

C.J. Cherryh

#20. I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.

Martin Parr

#21. to be incapable of a feeling of poetry, in my sense of the word, is to be without love of human nature

William Wordsworth

#22. From then on, we were simply different people. Not new people; different.

Russell Banks

#23. Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

Marilyn Monroe

#24. I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.

Donald Tusk