Sy Montgomery Quotes

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

The minute someone says 'Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air'...that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

You get faith by studying the Word. Study that Word until something in you "knows that you know" and that you do not just hope that you know.

Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.

A man should be what he can do.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

All things great are wound up with all things little.

If you've got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil's at your door.

Life's a dance you learn as you go.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

I'll stand beside you through the years, you'll only cry those happy tears. And though I'll make mistakes, I'll never break your heart.

There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.