"Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, blah, blah, blah. No need, though. Just try and think of me as a normal guy -William"

-- Gena Showalter

#Thinking Quotes #Feet Quotes #Rose Quotes

“I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!”
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Feb 02, 2012
“We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.”
“I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.”
“I got it this time, Daddy Warbucks,â€ I said,”
“I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.”
“Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.”
“When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.”

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