"I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work."

-- Jessica Chastain

#Play Quotes #Kind Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!”

Source : Conrad Aiken (2015). “The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken”, p.41, Open Road Media
“My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying. So I went downstairs, picked up a pair of pliers and a blowtorch and showed her what real fear was.”
“Weâ€™re going jogging.â€ â€œI donâ€™t run for recreation. I run when someoneâ€™s after me with a weapon.â€ â€œThat can be arranged,”
“If you feel like you've got something to offer you should do it while the iron's hot.”
“The tears of God are the meaning of history”

Source : Nicholas Wolterstorff (1987). “Lament for a Son”, p.90, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.”
“A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.”
“What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.”

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