Irenas Pedigrees Quotes

Of what avail are pedigrees? ~ Juvenal

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. ~ Samuel Johnson

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. ~ Josh Billings

I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild. ~ Etta James

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow. ~ Marlena De Blasi

In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen. ~ David Perkins

Now, tell me, my dear, I said, what are you crying about?
About the years that are gone, Mr. Betteredge," says Rosanna quietly. My past life still comes back to me sometimes.
Come, come, my girl, I said, your past life is all sponged out. Why can't you forget it?
"She took me by one of the lappets of my coat. I am a slovenly old man, and a good deal of my meat and drink gets splashed about on my clothes. Sometimes one of the women, and sometimes another, cleans me of my grease. The day before, Roseanna had taken out a spot for me on the lappet of my coat, with a new composition, warranted to remove anything. The grease was gone, but there was a little dull place left on the nap of the cloth where the grease had been. The girl pointed to that place, and shook here head.
The stain is taken off, she said. But the place shows, Mr. Betteredge
the place shows! ~ Wilkie Collins

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot. ~ LL Cool J

The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility. ~ Aleksandra Mir

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director? ~ Linda Hunt

Jack wasn't built in a way to ever regret the path his life took. He believed that everything happens for a reason. Although, I'm not sure he would feel the same way now seeing as he died jumping on that new path he dug for his life. ~ Harper Sloan

I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things. I don't like superhero things, I like real-people things. ~ Will Gluck

The song and the land are one. ~ Bruce Chatwin

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing. ~ Shelley Winters

Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld