Quotes About Eleanor Of Aquitaine

#1. Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#2. Even after more than five hundred years in Heaven, Eleanor of Aquitaine still missed quarreling and dressing up. Eleanor missed strong, sweet smells. Eleanor missed feeling hot and being cold. Eleanor missed Henry. She missed life.

E.L. Konigsburg

#3. Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

Eleanor Of Aquitaine

#4. Sometimes God uses people to test you. Be patient with people because you never know how God can use them to bring you your breakthrough.

Jeanette Coron

#5. And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

William Butler Yeats

#6. My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

Eleanor Of Aquitaine

#7. From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm.

Alison Weir

#8. I just don't like my face.

Amanda Seyfried

#9. I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

Andy Roddick

#10. A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

Dave Barry

#11. Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear.

Raphael Zernoff

#12. I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.

Fred Wilson

#13. So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

Francis Bacon

#14. Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#15. We've schemed and fought and loved until we are so entangled in hearts and minds that there is no way to set us free. God help us both, Harry, for we will never be rid of each other. Not even death will do that.

Sharon Kay Penman

#16. Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.
[First letter to Pope Celestine (1193)]

Eleanor Of Aquitaine

#17. A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

Martin Filler

#18. Eleanor's greatest grievance was not a simpering lass with flaxen hair and smooth skin. It was Aquitaine, always Aquitaine.

Sharon Kay Penman

#19. Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and the arbiter of good taste and modesty.

Alison Weir

#20. Tell them to stock up on caffeine, man up and push through it.

Frank L. Williams

#21. I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

Nina Dobrev

#22. She knew she'd wounded him when he'd least expected it, and her satisfaction lasted until the door had closed behind him. Once he was gone, it ebbed away along with her anger, leaving her with naught but the ashes and embers of a dying hearth fire.

Sharon Kay Penman

#23. The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it's dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.

Tullian Tchividjian

#24. 'Wayne's World' is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I was ten years old.

James Lafferty

#25. In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

Bill Dedman