Quotes of: Simple-act Keyword

Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all ...

John Bingham

You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to ...

Bernie Siegel

Did my moral upbrining somehow turn against itself? If looking at someone with desire was as bad as satisfying the desire, if having an active fantasy was as bad as the act you were fantasizing- then why not the satisfaction and the act itself? As th...

Bernhard Schlink

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can -...

Jeff Daniels

What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the bl...

Jeremy Davies

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of...

James Wolcott

The intelligence of women is not out in the world, acting on its own behalf; it is kept small, inside the home, acting on behalf of another. This is true even when the woman works outside the home, because she is segregated into women's work, and her...

Andrea Dworkin

Some writers have even argued that it may be possible to wean sex offenders away from their criminal activities through the use of pornography - with pornography acting as a substitute for sexual acts rather than a stimulant. This ties in with the ar...

Sexual Politics

Pain has an odd way of expressing itself in the acts of business. No matter how many setbacks a leader might experience, there always seems to be a new opaque watermark of endurance testing, invisibly triggered for erratic combustion in each compound...

This is Rage: A Novel of Silicon Valley and Other Madness

Cutter: Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if...

The Prestige

DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want.

Closer

You can’t be miserable when you’re running. It’s such a simple and pure way to feel alive.

Brooke

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Spencer

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.

Steven Price

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

Jaime Hernandez

It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other.

1Q84

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Siddhartha

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The most effective form of activism is kindness.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

This very moment is your greatest adventure.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

When someone is attacking you, they are coming to you for advice.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life