She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.


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JOHN RHYS-DAVIES
I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your lif...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS
The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you co...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES
To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES
My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to W...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES
I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES
Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious o...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES
Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because ...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES
'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever b...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES
I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return...
JEAN COCTEAU
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
JEAN INGELOW
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN
In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and...
JEAN SEBERG
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL
Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture....
JEAN CHATZKY
One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Conside...
JEAN CHATZKY
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ...
JEAN CHATZKY
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL
It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL
Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s...
JEAN CHATZKY
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th...
JEAN ROSTAND
A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL
That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN
The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND
Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY
A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND
The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND