D.X. Logan Quotes

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.

Im high maintenance, but Im worth it.

I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

I have a hard time watching myself.

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?

Patience is the mother of joy.

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

The film makers are the true movie stars.

I'm always in the theater seeing everything, good or bad.

I like to keep most of my private life private.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough."

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.

I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.

I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars'.

I hope I'm going to act for the rest of my life. What scares me is that if I get a big head, my mum said she would take me out of the business instantly - and if you knew my mum, she would do it!

I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement I'm a physical actor.

I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'

The butterflies will be jangling.