Carrie Pooter Quotes

#1. I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

John Gordon Sinclair

#2. For in general mortals have a great power of being astonished at the presence of an effect toward which they have done everything, and at the absence of an effect toward which they had done nothing but desire it.

George Eliot

#3. Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes, I am happy. You, dear old Charlie, are not handsome, but you are good, which is far more noble.

George Grossmith

#4. A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

Barack Obama

#5. You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

Elizabeth Banks

#6. She started off with an inspiration, a brave and dazzling idea; from that moment on, her pleasure ran downhill. In the first place she could never find a pattern to suit her. It was no wonder; there were no patterns made to match the ideas that blossomed in her head.

Alice Munro

#7. Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#8. On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.

Sean Penn

#9. When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.

Steven Magee

#10. I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

Ike Barinholtz

#11. It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.

Rhonda Byrne

#12. I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

Louise Mensch

#13. This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.

Chogyam Trungpa

#14. Love always makes those eloquent that have it.

---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad II

Christopher Marlowe