Nance Quotes

#1. And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.

William Shakespeare

#2. So spake the Son, and into terrour chang'd His count'nance too severe to be beheld And full of wrauth bent on his Enemies.

John Milton

#3. How hidden the heart, Nance thought. How frightened we are of being known, and yet how desperately we long for it.

Hannah Kent

#4. If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.

William Shakespeare

#5. His blessed count'nance; here I could frequent, With worship, place by place where he voutsaf'd Presence Divine, and to my Sons relate; On this Mount he appeerd, under this Tree Stood visible, among these Pines his voice I heard, here with him at this Fountain talk'd: So

John Milton

#6. In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you from your fate.

Sarah Waters

#7. When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.

Malcolm Wrightson Nance

#8. I have always done what I thought was best for my country, never varying unless I was advised that two-thirds of the Democrats were for a bill and then I voted for it.

John Nance Garner

#9. My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog. But I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from 'The Wizard of Oz.' But I warn you, my dog is always with me ... WOOF!

Jack Nance

#10. The vice-presidency isnt worth a bucket of warm piss,

John Nance Garner

#11. The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start.

John Nance Garner

#12. I write to right the wrongs of reality.

Lara Nance

#13. Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck?as Speaker of the House? Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.

John Nance Garner

#14. The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

John Nance Garner

#15. Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.
Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".

Richard Nance

#16. Actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.

Nance O'Neil

#17. But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

Jack Nance

#18. We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

Jack Nance

#19. Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

John Nance Garner

#20. And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

Jack Nance

#21. Law enforcement does counter political extremism here in the United States in the exact same way that they do political extremists who are infiltrated into the United States, who may come from a religious motivation, as we saw overseas in Europe. But the same methodologies have to be used.

Malcolm Wrightson Nance

#22. Did you ever stop and ask God if your current position is the one He has chosen for you, if where you are now is where He wants you to be? It makes no difference what the salary or working conditions are like; what really matters is, has God called you to that job and place?

Terry Nance

#23. An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

Nance O'Neil

#24. We have this unfortunate habit in the United States of dividing terrorism into different categories. External, foreign terrorism, which manifests itself overseas or in the United States, or domestic terrorism.

Malcolm Wrightson Nance

#25. All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

Jack Nance

#26. To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

Jack Nance

#27. How can we preserve our aspirations and at the same time develop the toughness of mind and spirit to face the fact that there are no easy victories? One is a tough-minded recognition that the fight for a better world is a long one.

John Nance Garner

#28. Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Jack Nance

#29. You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.

John Nance Garner

#30. I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

Jack Nance

#31. Tradition has made women cowardly.

Nance O'Neil

#32. The trouble today is that we have too many laws.

John Nance Garner