Durance Quotes

#1. Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

Alexander Pope

#2. The bodkin, comb, and essence to prepare? For this your locks in paper durance bound, For this with tort'ring irons wreath'd around? 100 For this with fillets strain'd your tender head, And bravely bore the double loads of lead?

Alexander Pope

#3. Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#4. Chapin was secured in the backseat - the motor-pool cars had rings bolted to the floor for just that reason - and he sat in his durance vile mumbling, ranting, threatening, and overusing the same naughty word.

Jeff Lindsay

#5. In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Robert Burns

#6. Martin,' interrupted Gervase, 'why were you stunned, kept in durance vile, and finally rolled into a sand-pit?

Georgette Heyer

#7. I love working with Erica [Durance]. She's so much fun. And I love how flippant, comfortable, and casual the relationship is. There is so much humor there, and they make each other laugh. It is obvious how much they adore each other. I really like that.

Allison Mack

#8. And over the river
in purple durance the
echoes bided there time.

L.M. Montgomery

#9. If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.

Erica Durance

#10. I just feel like I'm a part of a really cool group of ladies, really good actresses. And each of them kind of does it in their own way, but the character itself is such a great, strong lady that I like that they keep reinventing her.

Erica Durance

#11. I'm pretty klutzy and I've always been, so I have to own up to it. It's part of my charm!

Erica Durance

#12. I think that you can't help but bring pieces of who you are. No matter what you do, it comes through you, as a vessel.

Erica Durance

#13. People think that if you're sexy you have no brains, and if you have brains you aren't in touch with your sexual side. I'm trying to tell people, 'You can have it both ways.'

Erica Durance

#14. But I still had to tell myself, Keep looking up. I will tell you, he isnt Superman for nothing.

Erica Durance

#15. We all need to make time for a burger once in a while.

Erica Durance

#16. I'm happily married but it's absolutely heavenly.

Erica Durance

#17. If you want to demoralize somebody's spirit, you take away their hope.

Erica Durance

#18. Any kind of advice that I've been given to cut out carbs forever, don't do it. It just doesn't work. You do okay for a while and then you just overcarb.

Erica Durance

#19. I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

Erica Durance

#20. I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.

Erica Durance

#21. Obviously, I'm kind of loyal to Tom [Welling] because that's who I work with so to me he's my Superman.

Erica Durance

#22. Well, I love TV, and I love a good script.

Erica Durance

#23. I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

Erica Durance

#24. When you're out there in Vancouver doing your thing, and then you come down and you see how positive people are - people who are so jazzed and so supportive.

Erica Durance

#25. I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

Erica Durance

#26. I really enjoy comedy, but I also still really enjoy the drama aspect. So, I don't like to narrow my possible chances out there.

Erica Durance

#27. I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me. But I've always wanted to be part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show.

Erica Durance

#28. 'Smallville' was my first love and it is always close to my heart.

Erica Durance

#29. The best beauty advice I ever received is to keep skin hydrated and limit harsh exposure to the sun. If you are set on the tanned look, there are plenty of great creams that will give you a healthy-looking glow.

Erica Durance

#30. I'm a bit of a workaholic.

Erica Durance

#31. It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

Erica Durance