Meryton Hertfordshire Quotes

#1. There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.

Al Pacino

#2. I haven't felt like part of the living world these last years. I go out and walk around, but it's hard when you feel the best times of your life have happened already.

- Eloise Munn

Maureen Sherry

#3. In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

Edmund Morgan

#4. To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#5. Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. You've never been in a scrape yet but what it came about by accident. The thing is, no one else has these accidents.

Georgette Heyer

#7. How time flies when one has fun!

Samuel Beckett

#8. Menshikov wants to see the old gold swallowed by Apophis. He wants to see the world plunged into darkness and chaos. He is quite insane.
"Oh."
[great response, I know. But what do you say to a story like that?]

Rick Riordan

#9. Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

Vittorio Gassman

#10. Only religion can lead to such evil.

Lucretius