#eater

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ↗

— Voltaire

#greater #harm #i #know #life

I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#around #called #characters #david #desire

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#depends #dispositions #greater #happiness #misery

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#being #confined #entire #frame #greater

Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure. ↗

— Fay Wray

#around #audience #cary #cary grant #grant

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#ask #customers #go #i #i am

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#establish #fine #fine thing #greater #heart

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math! ↗

— Nathan Lane

#look #math #musical #musical theater #single

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier? ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#become #come #comes #could #done

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. ↗

— George MacDonald

#being #compliment #greater #loved #than