Irene Anslinger Quotes

#1. Nothing hurts me, Low Born. Absolutely nothing."
"How is that possible?" And for some reason he sounded as if he truly cared about her answer.
"When you stop feeling anything, you find it quite possible.

G.A. Aiken

#2. Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering ... I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.

Camille Claudel

#3. I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.

Rebecca Hall

#4. A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

Lillian Hellman

#5. Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.

Corliss Lamont

#6. He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of her [ ... ] Let us open the window and see if your painting can entice the butterflies.

Sarah Hall

#7. I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.

Sabirul Islam