Staines Quotes

#1. Staines was not a terribly good judge of character. He loved to be enchanted, and so was very often drawn to persons whose manner was suggestive of tragedy, romance, or myth.

Eleanor Catton

#2. I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

Esther Williams

#3. More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.

Jennifer Lawrence

#4. Hall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man

Mary Shelley

#5. They sat in silence for a moment. Then Mannering said, gruffly, 'What you're telling me is that this isn't the whole picture.
'Luck is never the whole picture' said Staines.

Eleanor Catton

#6. When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

Camryn Manheim

#7. And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.

Alan Sokal

#8. Unbelief is a burden, but the pretence of belief, hypocrisy, is death to all that is decent in you.

David Staines

#9. The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Ethel Barrymore

#10. I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn't it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn't be Venice, said Connie's voice in my head. Then it would be Staines.

David Nicholls

#12. I particularly love watching 'Hardware' with a young audience.

Richard Stanley

#13. So you fake and you flaw, for your cops and your cause. It makes no difference to me. It's love that you stole, that you stole.

Sara Quin

#14. But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.

Eleanor Catton

#15. You're of a mind with Mr. Staines.'
'Am I?'
'Yes,' Anna said. 'That is precisely the sort of thing that he would say.'
'Your Mr. Staines is quite the philosopher, Miss Wetherell.'
'Why, Reverend,' Anna said, smiling suddenly, 'I believe you've just paid yourself a compliment.

Eleanor Catton

#16. Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

Amanda Seyfried

#17. Those who don't look for magic, will never find it.

Rima Staines

#18. Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#19. I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

David Bowie