Lon Chaney Sr Quotes

Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces, I'll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I'll do whatever I need to do to create a character. ~ Nicolas Cage

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'. ~ Christopher Lee

Nothing is more natural to me than horror. ~ Lon Chaney, Jr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation. ~ Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God. ~ Bob Jones, Sr.

Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways. ~ Lester Holt

Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn. ~ Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

They had straddled the British trenches, 'crushing the sides of our own trench out of shape with their machine-guns swivelling around and firing like mad.' Their commanding officer furiously rained blows on the side of one of them with his staff cane, trying to get them to stop. Nobody knew what they were, except that they were British. 'There was a bulge on each side with the door in the bulging part,' observed Chaney, 'and machine-guns on swivels poked out from either side. ~ Robert Kershaw

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

When we get to the future, I'll decide the future. ~ George E. Allen, Sr.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

My tats were but temporal attempts to heal my soul, as my heart remained an open wound. ~ S.R. Grey

Science is the topography of ignorance. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

For Chase, I accept dares, I'm learning to take chances. He makes me feel unafraid. ~ S.R. Grey

In the year of Christ 1571, at the age of thirty-eight, on the last day of February, anniversary of his birth, Michel de Montaigne, lon weary of the servitude of the court and of public employments, while still entire, retired to the bosom of the learned Virgins [Muses], where in calm and freedom from all cares he will spend what little remains of his life now more than half run out. If the fates permit, he will completethis abode, this sweet ancestral retreat; and he has consecrated it to his freedom, tranquility, and leisure. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have a story and are always conniving. An ostrich tries to escape from the truth. Isn't an ostrich the thing that puts its head in the sand? But guess what's sticking out when he does it? It's ass, that's what. I don't want a team like that ... Because when you have a team like that and trouble comes, that team will not face the trouble. ~ John Chaney

The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone.
[Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.] ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Researchers consistently find that most older volunteers, when compared to older nonvolunteers, have fewer functional and physical impairments, overall better health, higher life satisfaction and less depression. In addition, they attend religious services more frequently and belong to more social organizations. ~ Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I have lived an eloquent sufficiency, any more would have been a superfluous redundancy."

My grandfather, Howard Creelman, Sr. always said this to my grandmother, Elaine. It is beautiful. I found this little brown tattered piece of paper tucked away in mmy grandmother's wallet after she passed away. It contained the original quote and simply said, "Howard always said this. ~ Curt Creelman

Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams - either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it's dependent upon those who stand beside you. ~ Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a
rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently
and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Do you have any bald ice cream? ~ Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

ignorance is not bliss, its just ignorance. ~ Joseph Meyering Sr

Exploiting situations to gain public favor is politics in a nutshell, darling ~ J.N. Chaney

I could deal with this [Pokemon] if I smoked a couple of grams of blacktar heroin. ~ Robert Downey, Sr.

The Mystery of Christ ~ Lon G. Stewart

For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart. ~ Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

The most vexing problem Israel faces is its relations with its neighbors. From the inception of the state until today, Israelis have felt besieged, surrounded by enemies who want to make them disappear. ~ Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

(Thomas J. Watson Sr. of IBM followed the same rule: "I'm no genius," he said. "I'm smart in spots - but I stay around those spots.") ~ Warren Buffett

Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden. ~ Bob Jones, Sr.

Hey." Lon said to Kar Yee, towering over her. "Hanging in there?"
"This? Pfft. It's nothing." Kar Yee said with a silly grin. "How's my favorite pirate captain? Did you come to give me something nice to look at? A little pirate booty?" She snorted a laugh at her own joke. ~ Jenn Bennett

Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don't bump into people without saying you're sorry. When you shake hands, it's supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out. ~ Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! ~ Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

You're not broken.' I touch the angel between the wings on his back for emphasis. 'You're putting your life back together. Building isn't breaking, Chase. ~ S.R. Grey

All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check and say, 'I'll see you in two weeks.' They never gave any kind of encouragement or information. They were very competitive with each other. They didn't want to teach an artist and then lose him to some other editor. ~ John Romita, Sr.

I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine. ~ Edgar Bronfman, Sr.