Vera Drake Quotes

#1. The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

Imelda Staunton

#2. Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,
teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

Samuel Smiles

#3. My grandfather had a wonderful funeral ... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

Woody Allen

#4. Yet union with a partner - someone with whom to wake, whom you love, and talk with on and off all day, and sit with at dinner, and watch TV and movies with, and read together in bed with, and do hard tasks with, and are loved by. That sounds really lovely.

Anne Lamott

#5. Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids.
Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying
and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust
and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.

Anne Sexton

#6. It's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.

Erik Naggum

#7. Dreams can change.

Kresley Cole

#8. Everything's forever until it isn't.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#9. And for the world's orphans. A portion of this book's proceeds will go to you.

Stacy Wasmuth