Sybil Thorndike famous quotes

I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.
-- Sybil Thorndike

#Thinking #Germs #Persons

I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.
-- Sybil Thorndike

#Funeral #Want #Wells

[When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Sir Lewis Casson:] Divorce? Never. But murder often!
-- Sybil Thorndike

#Divorce #Murder

We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.
-- Sybil Thorndike

#Giving #Long #People

I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar.
-- Sybil Thorndike

#Liars #Class #Firsts

It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.
-- Sybil Thorndike

#Play #People #Hysterical

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--

By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.

The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is longer; and it is more accurately retained the less the mode of life of the recent forms differs from that of the earlier, and the less the peculiarities of the several embryonic states must be regarded as transferred from a later to an earlier period of life, or as acquired independently.

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.