Raissa Bretana Quotes

#1. The past lives through us. We are its legacy.

Marty Rubin

#2. How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Lord Byron

#3. But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

John Donne

#4. Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

Bertrand Russell

#5. She was mined for the children
in her, one daughter, then another,
a short seam, quick to clay,
and not a single son to save them.

Robert Wrigley

#6. I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.

Tara Reid

#7. Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater, and flat feet. Another key element is "Strong Father Figure / Fear Thereof."

Tina Fey

#8. When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to.

Mo'ne Davis

#9. We must realize that artists are not in competition with each other. Help the young artists - find for them means to make their financial ways easier, that they may develop and fruit their fullest - but let us not ask them to please us in doing it.

Robert Henri

#10. Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.

Stephen Kinzer

#11. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.

Jenny Slate

#13. Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.

Kathy Reichs