Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. ...
Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me in spite of myself, and in spite of her own struggles with alcohol. She was an immigrant who had never finished school. But she was also a Renaissanc...
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: I have shed my tears for Brom... and yet my heart is not broken. Do you think me wicked? Ichabod Crane: No... but perhaps there is a little bit of witch in you, Katrina. Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Why do you say that? Ichabod C...
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Will you take nothing from Sleepy Hollow that was worth the coming here? Ichabod Crane: No. No, not nothing. [pauses] Ichabod Crane: A kiss, from a lovely young woman, before she saw my face or knew my name. Katrina Anne Van ...
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
Running a business anywhere isn't easy.
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
I'm a dad and that's pretty important.
I graduated from the University of Whatever.
I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified.
I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
Kids teach you a lot of patience.
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel qu...
I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or hap...
...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they ...
Anne reveled in the world of color about her. "Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped...
But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my d...
