Peter Macnicol Quotes

#1. Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

Peter MacNicol

#2. There is a Japanese word for things made more beautiful by use, that bear the evidence of their own making, or the individuating marks of time's passage: a kind of beauty not immune to time but embedded in it.

Mark Doty

#3. He would rock back and forth in his chair, making sure it squeaked ominously. He always found a chair that squeaked ominously. He was so good at squeaking ominously that he managed to make year-six teacher number two burst into tears.

Adrienne Kress

#4. It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power, women rank lowest, and have fewest rights accorded them, whether of personal liberty or proprietary interest.

Helen H. Gardener

#5. By cutting off my hair I was punishing myself for loving someone so much. I was trying to be stronger.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#6. Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

Anne Lamott

#7. On the floor. The hooded cloak he wore was as white

George R R Martin

#8. Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.

Harold Bloom

#9. We worry about many things. And pray about few things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

Mario Andretti

#11. Every student, without exception,
should be able to succeed well
at something consequential.

Ted Sizer

#12. Do your part to silence gossip - don't repeat it.

Leslie Nielsen

#13. Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

Sparky Anderson

#14. If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.

James Carville

#15. My identity was stolen by two separate peoplewho I hope are playing me better

Peter MacNicol

#16. Even in a million different pieces, Eleanor could still feel Park holding her hand.

Rainbow Rowell

#17. The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Christopher Morley