The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.

I feel like tiny bird with a big song!

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

You know when your mouth a-getting dry You're plenty high.

The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel.

Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.

Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of enhancing it or directing attention to it by shouting about it, I simply take it away.

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.