I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
These people will never understand him! He’ll be famous — a legend — I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future — there will be books written about Harry — every child in our world will know his name!
Karen Pommeroy: This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that "cellar door" is the most beautiful.
Voldemort: Harry! I'd almost forgotten you were here, standing on the bones of my father. I'd introduce you, but rumor has it you're almost as famous as me these days.
Ramona V. Flowers: He was a snot-nosed little brat. He just followed me around. Scott Pilgrim: He had snot in his nose? But he's famous.
John Van Horne: I'm just an untalented old has-been. Dorothy Michaels: Were you ever famous? John Van Horne: No. Dorothy Michaels: Then how can you be a has-been?
Elaine Miller: [to William] Your Dad was so proud of you. He knew you were a predominantly accelerated child. Anita Miller: What about me? Elaine Miller: You are rebellious and ungrateful of my love.
Russell Hammond: Don't worry, no one's getting hurt here. She knows Leslie's coming to New York tomorrow. This is the circus, everybody's trying not to go home. Stop looking at me like that.
William Miller: You said we were going to go to Morocco. There is no Morocco. There's never been a Morocco. There's not even a Penny Lane. I don't even know your real name.
Young William: Mom, tell me more about Livia. Elaine Miller: She killed everybody so her son Tiberius could inherit the throne - just like Nixon.
Russell Hammond: Do you give a shit about a t-shirt? Larry Fellows: I'm just hungry man; let's just go out and find some barbeque or something.
Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor.
1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought. 2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue. 3. Therefore, God is a being than which no being could be more virtuous. 4. But virtue involves overcoming pains and dangers. 5. ...
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.
If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore, inherent in him as a human being, necessarily remain with him du...
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the m...
When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without bein...
