"In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple."

--

John Millington Synge

#Nuts Quotes #Play Quotes #Apples Quotes

“Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
“Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws.”

Source : Song: King, 2012
“My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.”
“For we constantly deal with practical problems, with moulders, contractors, derricks, stonemen, trucks, rubbish, plasterers and what-not-else, all the while trying to soar into the blue.”

Source : "The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens".
“I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.”
“This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; She brings light to our intrinsic ideas; She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth...”
“As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”

Source : Speech at Annual Meeting of West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre, Birmingham, 20 April 1968, in 'Observer' 21 April 1968
“No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.”

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