Rachel Quotes

Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?

I think all of our ministers are relatively inexperienced. I'm relatively inexperienced. We're a six-month-old government.

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything

Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

I got swirling eyes and the capacity to shatter windows with my bare voice. Tod got teleportation and invisibility. The supernatural world is so far from fair.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water.

This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky.

You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.

Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.

...don’t judge your future based on others’ mistakes.

I'm a little funny when it comes to blood and guts and stuff like that.

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

Follow me,” Myrnin said. “And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.

Often with film, I find that you're just really getting to know a person. They're just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film.

I've always liked dressing up. And I love a high heel - the higher the better. I just feel funny in flats.

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

Define better with that guy. Not all fangs and raaaaar.

I was a little jealous of the levitation cloak but I was happy to be comfortable [on Doctor Strange set].

Silence, and then Eve said, "Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.

What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.

Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.

I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go." "Ooh, me, too," Eve said. The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it. "What? It's what girls do. Get over it.

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Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.

Everybody is a story.

All natural processes are long processes and they last.

My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.

Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

I definitely think there is a shift happening right now in terms of visibility, but there's still a choice you make as a public figure on what to do or how to present your sexuality.

I always feel like one of the guys and very unintimidated.

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.