#Hills Quotes
“Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.”
“it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,†Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future”
“My mum's American. She's from Detroit.”
“I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.”
“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.”
Source : "Constable". Book by Conal Shields, p. 288. Letter to Rev. John Fisher (1824), 1993.
“Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.”
Source : Andrea Levy (2010). “Small Island: A Novel”, p.383, Macmillan
“YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.”
“When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.”
Bryan Batt Actor
Peter Brook Theatre Director
