Van Heflin Quotes

#1. I held up my hands. 'I thought you could use a punching bag.' See, this is me, the new and improved Nick Pardee, available to girlfriends and crazy people in their time of need.

Tessa Gratton

#2. Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

Wallace Stevens

#3. Rest when you're tired. Take a break when life stales. Take time to recharge your battery. Energy isn't something you have - it's something you are. To give and give and give, to put out without taking in, depletes your battery. It drains you, runs you down.

Melody Beattie

#4. I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.

Kirk Douglas

#5. You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world - that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature - but perhaps that withdrawal is the only suffering you might be able to avoid.

Franz Kafka

#6. You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.

Van Heflin

#7. You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.

Simon Cheshire

#8. Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.

Nirmala Srivastava

#9. I've learned to respect the whimsical.

Michael Leunig

#10. It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.

Zakk Wylde

#11. As we immerse ourselves in the service of others, we find our spiritual selves and come unto Him.

Derek A. Cuthbert

#12. Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on my acting.

Van Heflin

#13. It's not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it's your sadness that does it.

Angelos Michalopoulos

#14. A poem begins as a lump in the throat? Gamache asked Ruth. The elderly woman held his eyes

Louise Penny

#15. The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.

Thomas Brooks

#16. She found a dark satisfaction in pain - because that pain came from him.

Ayn Rand