Eileen Atkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.
-- Eileen Atkins

#Death #Soul #Dying
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?
-- Eileen Atkins

#Hands #People #Mind
I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
-- Eileen Atkins

#Thinking #People #Way
The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.
-- Eileen Atkins

#Meaningful #Effort #Results
Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.
-- Eileen Atkins

#Mean #Tables #Fame

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.
There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isnâ€™t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.
You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.
Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

Eileen Atkins famous quotes

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