St. Vincent Quotes

Any action is better than no action at all.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

Take charge of your mind and begin to fill it with healthy, positive, and courageous thoughts.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

I change my thoughts, I change my world.

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

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.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

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

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Storytelling is the important thing.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.