Nightside Tables Quotes

#1. Auntie Elli, why are you open-mouth kissing Big Daddy Adler?
*Well, shit*

Toni Aleo

#2. The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

Michael Caine

#3. I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

Leslie Caron

#4. The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.

Greg Boyle

#5. Being willing makes you able.

Rhonda Britten

#6. The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

Ted Koppel

#7. But the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.

Donna Tartt

#8. That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.

Bryan Cranston

#9. The gospel keeps me relating to God on the basis of Jesus's perfections, not on the illusions of my religious achievements.

Gloria Furman

#10. It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years!

R.A. Dickey

#11. Every child likes to take a pencil to make a mark. Everybody makes beautiful things when they are three, four, or five years old. Most people lose that spontaneity; I think that always happens. Some are able to win a second spontaneity.

Alvaro Siza

#12. Miniatures made her feel like she was larger than life, like the world was in the palm of her hand.

Lisi Harrison