Trocadero Quotes

#1. Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

Andrew Solomon

#2. A diligent ant is more useful than a lazy cow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

Maude Royden

#4. You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.

Jill Paton Walsh

#5. It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

Sally Pearson

#6. My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a sign-writer.

Sherwood Anderson

#7. Writing that sort of [songs like "Let is Roll"]made me try to almost sort of ingrain it in my own head every time I sing it live as well. It's like therapy. It's like "Move on, Pip! Come on. You can do this! You can do this."

Ladyhawke

#8. My co-stars aren't bad actors, but they're no Zach Braff.

Zach Braff

#9. I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

Rita Hayworth

#10. How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?

George R R Martin

#11. War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

Chris Hedges

#12. You're never too worried as a captain, when you know Rahul Dravid's still out there.

Sourav Ganguly

#13. You jumped into Tartarus," she said, "because Percy said your name?

Rick Riordan

#14. Of course that he affected her in such a way that she often wanted to simply shed her clothes and fall down on her back, ticked her off.

Jennifer Ashley

#15. I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

D.W. Griffith