Mourning Becomes Electra Quotes

#1. In truth, I did not have to wonder. She would be feeling that disturbing mixture of emotions that she always summoned from me: admiration and envy, pride and a furious rivalry, a longing to see a beloved sister succeed, and a passionate desire to see a rival fall.

Philippa Gregory

#2. Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

Mike Patton

#3. LAVINIA: I want to feel love! Love is all beautiful! I never used to know that! I was a fool! We'll be married soon ... We'll make an island for ourselves on land and we'll have children and love them and teach them to love life so that they can never be possessed by hate and death!

Eugene O'Neill

#4. It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.

Sasheer Zamata

#5. The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life.

Bryant McGill

#6. LAVINIA: I love everything that grows simply
up toward the sun
everything that's straight and strong! I hate what's warped and twists and eats into itself and dies for a lifetime in shadow ...

Eugene O'Neill

#7. My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

Claire Danes

#8. However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing could be like cleaning carpets or working in a factory: just a meaningless production of words.

Alice Driver

#9. Like all pacifists, Zweig evaded the question of how to protect the peaceful sheep from the ravening wolves, no doubt in the unrealistic hope that the wolves would one day discover the advantages of vegetarianism.

Theodore Dalrymple

#10. Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

Marilyn Wallace

#11. LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural ... I have a right to love!

Eugene O'Neill