Effacements Quotes

#1. Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.

Elizabeth Goudge

#2. I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.

Brendan Fraser

#3. The skin of my character in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.

David Bowie

#4. Envy yearns to find flaws.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#5. But it wasn't that I wasn't big on socializing. It was that I wasn't very good at mingling. Small talk did nothing for me. Connecting in a vague way that was meaningless left me cold.

Kristen Ashley

#6. I do not know that I should be fond of preaching often; now and then, perhaps, once or twice in the spring, after being anxiously expected for half-a-dozen Sundays together; but not for a constancy; it would not do for a constancy.

Jane Austen

#7. A weathered skeleton
in windy fields of memory,
piercing like a knife.

Matsuo Basho

#8. When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

John Lubbock

#9. I look back the old old ones [X-Files series], from the beginning, and I'm kind of mortified by my acting! But I'm kind of impressed by my enthusiasm. I'm just thankful that I got to become better at what I did, and that we didn't get cancelled in the first year.

David Duchovny

#10. Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush.

Laurence Overmire

#11. Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Chuck Mangione

#12. Cost does not equal value ... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.

Tom Peters

#13. If he believed he didn't have to care, then he didn't need to hurt when he failed.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

Imran Khan

#15. Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#16. You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse - But all may be described in verse.

Garrison Keillor