Jessica Tandy Quotes

#1. If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it vigorously! A careless pilgrim only scatters the dust of his passions more widely.

Various

#2. I'd like to drift into Jessica Tandy-type parts.

Dina Merrill

#3. I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

Jessica Tandy

#4. After the debacle of the party, debugging the code running in his own brain was bliss. His body lay safely in his bed. His mind exulted inside the Nexus development environment, tracing the events that had led to the fault. Here he was in his element.

Ramez Naam

#5. I'd also made the mistake of thinking love was a single identifiable emotion, something sharp like an arrowhead to the heart or some other romantic nonsense. It wasn't, not for most people. Love was an accumulation of things, of thoughts, feelings, desires and hopes.

Fabian Black

#6. I found out what the secret to life is - friends. Best friends.

Jessica Tandy

#7. When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.

Jessica Tandy

#8. As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.

Tariq Ali

#9. For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.

Serena Williams

#10. Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Ben Nicholson

#11. Don't get high off praises, and don't get too low on critiques.

Janelle Monae

#12. As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Simon Newcomb

#13. I hope I'm Jessica Tandy, you know. I hope I'm onstage, and I fall over at 85 or something with everyone applauding thinking that it was a joke, you know, 'There she goes again,' and I'm just gone. I've gone to Heaven.

Elizabeth Banks

#14. Each of us must do whatever we have a passion to do.

Jessica Tandy

#15. Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

Henri Nouwen

#16. You are richer for doing things.

Jessica Tandy

#17. I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

George W. Bush