The Snow Goose Quotes

#1. The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

#2. To the British, Dunkirk symbolizes a generosity of spirit, a willingness to sacrifice for the common good. To Americans, it has come to mean Mrs. Miniver, little ships, The Snow Goose, escape by sea. To the French, it suggests bitter defeat; to the Germans, opportunity forever lost.

Walter Lord

#3. Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Joan Didion

#4. American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that.

Emilia Clarke

#5. In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had a chance to read them; it breaks my heart. But when you travel so much, you just can't take that many books with you.

Danielle De Niese

#6. His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.

Djuna Barnes

#7. Aloneness is the first lesson of Love.

Santosh Kalwar

#8. There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.

William Shenstone

#9. If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.

Albert Meltzer

#10. For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life.

Raymond Carver

#11. I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

Stewart Udall

#12. For an illuminated life, give yourself up for the service of others.

Debasish Mridha

#13. [Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament ... Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?

Trent Lott

#14. I read the 'New Yorker' when I was a kid. I used to love the cartoons and pick the cartoons out of the library, so I felt I knew the world of their cartoons.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#15. It was January. Snow was falling; snow had fallen all day. The sky spread like a grey goose's wing from which feathers where falling all over England.

Virginia Woolf

#16. I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

Gordon Getty

#17. It feels like a dream come true, being a Bond girl. I feel like a princess. It's hard to believe it when I say, 'I'm a Bond girl.'

Stephanie Sigman

#18. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

Percy Bysshe Shelley