Masiela Quotes

#1. Shallow roots. Sandy soil. The bark is gray and rough. The leaves are long gone but her name still looks beautiful to me.

Ally Condie

#2. I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#3. Hollandaise, I would like to pour over my head and just rub all over myself. Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs.

Wylie Dufresne

#4. Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

Masiela Lusha

#5. I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?

Masiela Lusha

#6. Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

James Joyce

#8. When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

Masiela Lusha

#9. Part of courage is simple consistency.

Peggy Noonan

#10. Although I was quiet as a child, I had this resistless passion inside of me-this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

Masiela Lusha

#11. Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

Masiela Lusha

#12. Nothing can resist your kind heart and your sharp axe.

L. Frank Baum

#13. No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.

Lloyd Alexander

#14. My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.

Masiela Lusha

#15. Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever

Masiela Lusha

#16. As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#17. My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

Masiela Lusha

#18. I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I'm not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for attention is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.

Masiela Lusha

#19. As an actress, if you find inspiration through my work, then my job is complete.

Masiela Lusha

#20. There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality. Albanian blood runs through my veins and I am proud to call myself Albanian.

Masiela Lusha

#21. I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

Masiela Lusha

#22. I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

Masiela Lusha

#23. the water of the lagoon was warm as blood, salt as tears, and astonishingly clear

Gillian Bradshaw

#24. Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures ... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

Masiela Lusha

#25. If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.

Jenson Button

#26. Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

Masiela Lusha

#27. In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

Masiela Lusha

#28. If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

Masiela Lusha

#29. I'm not a big politics guy.

Kevin Hart

#30. While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

Masiela Lusha

#31. I find time to write the way kids find time to ride their bikes.

Masiela Lusha

#32. Instead, she found her argument in the "doctrine of necessity," an idea established in common law that in certain limited circumstances, which no parliament would ever care to define, it was permissible to break the criminal law to prevent a greater evil.

Ian McEwan

#33. Man is the only animal that strives to be more than he is....it is the indomitable spirit within that makes him human.

Steven Lang

#34. It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.

Masiela Lusha