Top 47 Siddons Quotes
#1. A profile was visible against the dull monochrome of cloud around her; and it was as though side shadows from the features of Sappho and Mrs. Siddons had converged upwards from the tomb to form an image like neither but suggesting both.
Thomas Hardy
#2. Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons.
Donald Sinden
#5. At four that morning my son, Peter Williams Chambliss, slid into the world tiny and red and roaring with life and the awful love that caught and whirled me away when they laid him on my stomach was as strong and old as the earth and would, I knew dimly, abide as long.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#6. Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!
Sarah Siddons
#8. Sometimes I could scarcely breathe with the knowledge that for the rest of my life, whenever we wanted, Peter and I could lie down and do whatever we wished.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#10. You will have to grow up to her quickly, I thought, surprising myself, or you will lose her.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#11. Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#12. I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.
Sarah Siddons
#13. The room was bright and white and still and silent, but soundless sound roared and howled in it.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#14. I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half ...
Sarah Siddons
#15. Everything about it and the fierce old coast around it, had the ring and taste and feel of utter rightness to me. Its peace and loneliness crept into my veins and ran there, its wildness called out to the deep buried wildness in my heart.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#16. All places where the French settled have corruption at their heart, a kind of soft, rotten glow, like the phosphorescence of decaying wood, that is oddly attractive.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#17. I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was ... young.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#18. Bathed in the thick honey gold of the sun through encircling trees only just beginning to turn the muted metal colors of fall.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#19. Leaving the air crystal and sweet and the dusty, used leaves sparkling. The lake surface was a diamond-dusted, dancing indigo ...
Anne Rivers Siddons
#21. To sputter and giggle - Baby too. "I followed my piss!" I said between hiccupping laughter. "She followed her piss and her dreams came true!" Rachel screamed. "Follow your piss, Obi-Wan Kenobi," Barbara intoned.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#22. Customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.
Sarah Siddons
#25. It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#26. I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#27. Her light brown eyes were the color of sherry, fringed with long, thick, gold-tipped lashes.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#28. (the villa) It's beautiful too, all hot pinks and reds, and rocks and sand and blinding blue and white.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#29. Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#30. I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.
Sarah Siddons
#31. Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever.
Sarah Siddons
#33. The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and on all side round, may be perhaps be imagined but can not be described.
Sarah Siddons
#34. You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it to keep it alive and healthy.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#35. I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#36. I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#38. On a night of icy silver radiance, when the very sea and stars seemed on fire with light.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#39. I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#40. Yancey crawled from her tangled bed one morning and assembled her long limbs and sharp bones into something as exotic and seductive to the eye as a peacock or a griffin or a unicorn.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#41. And I thought I might take him home and see how he works. It's really neat the way all those little bone things fit together, like a zipper.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#42. That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness ...
Anne Rivers Siddons
#43. But there sometimes comes a moment, a small, silent white explosion of awareness.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#44. Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#45. I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#46. I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#47. Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in sepia.
Anne Rivers Siddons
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