"What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die."

-- Edith Sitwell

#Nurse Quotes #Mad Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance”
“I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.”
“By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.”
“The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet.”

Source : Nat Turner (2011). “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press
“Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.”
“The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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