Waistband Elastic By The Yard Quotes

#1. Is that true?
There is truth in it.
And lies as well?
There is an untruth, and an exaggeration.

George R R Martin

#2. I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial ... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

Winston S. Churchill

#3. When you get back from a trip, make a note of what you didn't wear. This will avoid packing it unnecessarily next time.

Robert Powell

#4. There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part ... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

Simone Signoret

#5. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Susan Sontag

#6. It's important to teach our children their heritage. Who are your ancestors? What were their traditions? Each of us has a story to tell. If these stories are unwritten, then how are your children going to know of their parentage?

Linda Weaver Clarke

#7. Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale;
And when we whisper, then the stars fall down
To be partakers of our honey talk.
(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54)

Christopher Marlowe

#10. I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

Ken Kesey

#11. If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

Susan Bysiewicz

#12. The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page.

Ann Patchett

#13. I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

Zach Woods

#14. It is unfortunate that some in our party have lost sight of the importance of conservation and environmental protection for keeping America strong, healthy, prosperous, and secure. It's time for all of our Republican leaders to recognize that conservation is conservative.

David Jenkins