Fred Ward is an American character actor, producer and model. He began his film career in 1979 alongside Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz.
His notable roles include Southern Comfort, The Right Stuff, Remo Williams, his self-produced movie Miami Blues, Tremors, Henry & June, The Player, Short Cuts, Big Business, Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, Tremors II: Aftershocks, Chain Reaction, Road Trip, Management as well as character roles in many action, drama, comedy and thriller movies.
"I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn’t pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they’d drunk up all their money."
"Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas." ― Jil Sander
"There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination." ― Godfried Danneels
"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have." ― Leonardo da Vinci
"We’re not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears." ― Calvin Klein
Iris Murdoch was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.
Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library’s 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
"The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
"Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
"As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things." ― Gunter Grass
"The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down." ― A. J. Liebling