Cophetua Quotes

#1. Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

William Shakespeare

#2. I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

John Oliver

#3. Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

Thomas De Quincey

#5. No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

Grace Paley

#6. There are plenty of directors who work with the same actors over and over, many more times than I have. Like I have worked with Bill Nighy more times than I have worked with Kate, but I'm not married to Bill Nighy.

Len Wiseman

#7. Breath play is not my scene at all.

E.L. James

#8. There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Paul Eldridge

#9. Before I film a movie, I look at how the character will move and walk.

Romain Duris

#10. I got in and started the engine, also turning on the radio. When the music began I wished that there might be more switches to turn on, for it was somehow not enough.

Saul Bellow

#11. There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.

Abelardo Morell

#12. In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

Zachary Lazar

#13. I don't think anyone wants a movie on time that's not worth your time.

J.J. Abrams

#14. The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.

Joseph Stilwell

#15. Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work.

Swami Vivekananda