Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.
On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.
Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.
One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.
There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.
Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?
Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.
When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.
I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.