"If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights."

-- Brenda Ueland

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.”

Source : Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.23, Macmillan
“Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?”
“Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.”
“Religion's pretty pervasive in humans. And why it's pervasive in humans is debated a lot. There are indications of things that look like religion in other animals, like chimps doing rain dances, and that sort of thing. Actually, I say that, but there's that and not much else.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Is that all? The mountain in labor has brought forth a mouse.”

Source : May Agnes Fleming (2014). “The Baronet's Bride: Or a Woman's Vengeance”, p.38, The Floating Press
“The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.”
“I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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