Harriet Walter Quotes

I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft. ~ Harriet Walter

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect. ~ Harriet Walter

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route. ~ Harriet Walter

I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy. ~ Harriet Walter

I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well. ~ Harriet Walter

I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra. ~ Harriet Walter

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle. ~ Harriet Walter

When you are starting to fall in love with someone you want to know everything there is to know about them; you want to understand their world and be accepted into it. It is the same for an actor with a new role. ~ Harriet Walter

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks. ~ Harriet Walter

I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before. ~ Harriet Walter

I'm doing my best. I read in the paper that I'm an action director. They always say that, "Action director Walter Hill", if they bother writing about me at all. I think that's fine. I'm happy to do the work. ~ Walter Hill

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient. ~ Harriet Evans

The church will not have power to act or believe until it recovers its tradition of faith and permits that tradition to be the primal way out of enculturation. ~ Walter Brueggemann

I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't there right now, it's coming back again. ~ Walter Mosley

Eyewitness News' is a clever plot to convince us that all the important events are happening somewhere else, to other people, at the same time we're literally dying in our beds. ~ Walter Kirn

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door. ~ Walter Jon Williams

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd. ~ Walter Scott

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it. ~ Walter Kirn

By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally. ~ Walter Schloss

I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty. ~ Walter Kirn

I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a "parental relation;" and their request was granted. These husbands blushed before the superior nobleness of their wives' natures. Though they had only counseled them to do that which was their duty to do, it commanded their respect, and rendered their conduct more exemplary. Concealment was at an end, and confidence took the place of distrust. ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way. ~ Jess Walter

Well, it is to be confessed that the cold of warm climates always has a peculiarly aggravating effect on the mind. A warm region is just like some people who get such a character for good temper, that they never can indulge themselves even in an earnest disclaimer without everybody crying out upon them, "What puts you in such a passion?" &c. So Nature, if she generally sets up for amiability during the winter months, cannot be allowed a little tiff now and then, a white frost, a cold rain-storm, without being considered a monster. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. ~ Garrison Keillor

But of no country is it so true as of India that the nearer one gets to the capital the further one gets from the realities. ~ Walter Crocker

Religious beliefs are sometimes based not on testimony by others but on religious experiences of the believer. ~ Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

In the kitchen Valeria was making breakfast, his aunt never made breakfast even though Carlo insisted for years that a hotel hoping to cater to French and Americans must offer breakfast. "It's a lazy man's meal.", she always said. "What laggard expects to eat before doing any work? ~ Jess Walter

Scott and Terry created a political theatre in which a Hanovarian English monarch could appear on the stage of Edinburgh to act the part of a Stuart king. ~ Cairns Craig

Thee mustn't speak evil of thy rulers, Simeon," said his father, gravely. "The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

A sinful heart makes feeble hand. ~ Walter Scott

Most men of business think Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still. ~ Walter Bagehot

Judging people for whom they love (a same sex partner) rather than by whom they harm, should in itself merit a psychiatric diagnosis. ~ Harriet Lerner

What I truly believe, I will achieve. ~ Walter Marin

There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be. ~ Walter Duranty

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ~ Walter Lippmann

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget. ~ Walter Mosley

Potatoes came to Europe from the New World in the early sixteenth century. Sir Francis Drake is thought to have introduced the potato to England, and shortly afterward Sir Walter Raleigh tried planting them on his Irish estates. When ~ Ryan Hackney

I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake. ~ Walter Scott

Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period. ~ Walter Scott

Pure talent and charisma and like gods they were terrible together. Awful. A gorgeous nightmare. ~ Jess Walter

November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear. ~ Walter Scott

I think you might have missed the right person, your true love, because you have spent your life looking too hard for him. You have a great capacity to love, Laura. Don't run away from it. Use it. Stop wasting it. Throw yourself into it, and don't be scared. I promise you, with all my heart, that you will never live a day when you regret it. ~ Harriet Evans

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. ~ Walter Inglis Anderson

True "volunteering," then, obeys no law, seeks no returns, pays no debts, plans no praise for yourself, nor proves your goodness ~ Walter Wangerin Jr.

Torah is not merely a collection of prohibitions, rigid strictures and boring observances. Rather, it is a narrative of the blessings and promises of God initially offered to one person and family, but through which the whole world will ultimately be blessed. ~ Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd. ~ Walter Crane

It's different up here, you know."
"I know," said Laura miserably. "I was
enjoying myself, that's all."
Nick watched her for a moment. "Don't look so tragic about it, Laura. It's not a crime to enjoy yourself, you know."
"Yes, it is," muttered Laura, feeling as if she were in some biblical parable, the one where the Lord wreaks vengeance on the stupid girl who is a foolish wanton by removing the last shred of common sense in her brain. ~ Harriet Evans

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves. ~ Walter E. Williams

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not be like one another. In the same way a translation, instead of resembling the meaning of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's mode of signification, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel. ~ Walter Benjamin

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. ~ Walter Scott

Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind. ~ Walter J. Phillips

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. ~ Walter Lippmann

So I was sold at last! A human being sold in the free city of New York! The bill of sale is on record, and future generations will learn from it that women were articles of traffic in New York, late in the nineteenth century of the Christian religion. ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious. ~ Walter Moers

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened. ~ Walter Ulbricht

Nothing quells anxiety like action! ~ Walter Inglis Anderson

We believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone," Jobs declared in an email to a customer. "Folks who want porn can buy an Android. ~ Walter Isaacson