Violet Strange Quotes

#1. I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

Coco Chanel

#2. She would've made an excellent pirate.

Erica Ridley

#3. Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

Michael Card

#4. I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

Pauly Shore

#5. The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.

Michael K. Williams

#6. I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

Jack Nicholson

#7. He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?

Jimmy Buffett

#9. She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)

Candida Martinelli

#10. When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Bruce Feiler

#11. For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Akira Kurosawa

#12. NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like.
Dangerous by Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale

#13. I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there.

Billy Collins

#14. When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

Bruno Tonioli

#15. Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

Rick Warren

#16. Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

Candida Martinelli

#17. I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies. I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day.

Channing Tatum

#18. Down the violet wind slid syrinx melodies, wild as foxes, mad as love, strange as wakening.

Cecilia Dart-Thornton