Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham quote: "[The] legitimate office [of the human face] is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul."

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. . . . It is the register of value in development, a re...
ELIZA WOOD BURHANS FARNHAM

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost ...
ELIZA WOOD BURHANS FARNHAM

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record o...
ELIZA FARNHAM

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost ...
ELIZA FARNHAM

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the pat...
ELIZA FARNHAM

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
ELIZA FARNHAM

We've tried to make it an atmosphere where you walk in and forget you're in Athens.
HILARIE BURHANS

It's bad for you like many bad choices we make in our lives, and yet people make bad choices about l...
HILARIE BURHANS

That typifies the way we've wrestled all year. We've fought for every point. We've battled for every...
BRIAN FARNHAM

For the most part, everyone is a gentleman here. They express the strengths of their kid and try to ...
BRIAN FARNHAM

The kid from Clayton was pretty aggressive and he just got caught. James is a little upset with hims...
BRIAN FARNHAM

Obviously, you are not going to win every match you want to win. But to win five or six matches agai...
BRIAN FARNHAM

I'm really into laces; I always accessorize with shoe laces whether I wear them as a belt, or at...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I...
ELIZA DUSHKU

When I was really little, I wanted to be a taxi driver or a bus driver; I loved the fact that I coul...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

My friends will be like, 'That bloke was chatting you up', and I'll go, 'What?' ...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
ELIZA DUSHKU

Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
ELIZA COOK

Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.
ELIZA COOK

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
ELIZA COOK

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
ELIZA COOK

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
ELIZA COOK

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, inte...
ELIZA TABOR

'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."
ELIZA COOK

I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the...
ELIZA DUSHKU

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
ELIZA COOK

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
ELIZA DUSHKU

There are lots of people whose style I admire, although I'd never dress like them. Chloe Sevigny...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - a...
ELIZA COUPE

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do m...
ELIZA COUPE

I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO sh...
ELIZA COUPE

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying t...
ELIZA DUSHKU

Usually, when you do video games, you don't interact with the other actors. You each record your...
ELIZA DUSHKU

I haven't been watching any TV recently because I've been on the road, but I am an avid '...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I a...
ELIZA TAYLOR

I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note ...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm...
ELIZA HAYWOOD

I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news....
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When th...
ELIZA DUSHKU

My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone ba...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I love the physical roles. I have the utmost respect for stunt people and stunt doubles, but I like ...
ELIZA DUSHKU

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man.
ELIZA COOK

The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and s...
ELIZA COOK

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
ELIZA DUSHKU

It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed wi...
ELIZA COUPE

In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects an...
ELIZA COUPE

Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!
ELIZA COOK

There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay, We must ...
ELIZA COOK

After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's uni...
ELIZA DUSHKU

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
ELIZA COOK

I have nieces and nephews that I love hanging out with, and they think I'm the biggest goof on t...
ELIZA DUSHKU

My hands are huge. When I was on 'Scrubs,' Zach Braff used to make fun of them all the time....
ELIZA COUPE

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footstep...
ELIZA COOK

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
ELIZA DUSHKU

My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my fat...
ELIZA DUSHKU

I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China calle...
ELIZA COUPE

I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder ...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

Every time I get photographed, it's the legs. So I've insured them for a lot, for £5 m...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and jus...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I think that the incredible turnout in places like Dallas is just reflective of the deeply felt sens...
ELIZA LEIGHTON

When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not...
ELIZA COUPE

I remember having a Mike Tyson T-shirt back in the day that I used to sleep in. And there some thing...
ELIZA DUSHKU

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.
ELIZA DUSHKU

When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a li...
ELIZA COUPE

Joss is doing a little movie called Wonder Woman. I'd slap on the Dukes for that!
ELIZA DUSHKU

I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everythin...
ELIZA DUSHKU

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
ELIZA DUSHKU

The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be contro...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I love it, I love it; and who shall dare / To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
ELIZA COOK

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart
ELIZA COOK

Only you can define you. No one else's opinions should have any impact whatsoever.
ELIZA LEAMY

I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
ELIZA COOK

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps ma...
ELIZA COOK

Better build schoolrooms for "the boy,"/ Than cells and gibbets for "the man."
ELIZA COOK

I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I&#...
ELIZA COUPE

I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtr...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they...
ELIZA COUPE

There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. ...
ELIZA COUPE

I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younge...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

When I’m away from you I am lost.
But, when I’m with you I am lost in you.
ELIZA FREED

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist...
ELIZA DUSHKU

Naivety is cured with time. Stupidity is terminal.
ELIZA CREWE

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in 'True Lies', she told me, You need a plan B, because ...
ELIZA DUSHKU

I really admire the way the fans have joined me in social justice endeavours and the charitable work...
ELIZA DUSHKU

From all corners of this country ... we are choosing to speak out in a nationwide movement for immig...
ELIZA LEIGHTON

There are going to be over 100 rallies on Monday.
ELIZA LEIGHTON

I knew he'd be acquitted; I knew it.
ELIZA JOHNSON

We are plain people from Tennessee, called here for a little time by a nation's calamity, and I hope...
ELIZA JOHNSON

Last weekend's meet went really well, but a lot of people weren't running their main events. We sort...
ELIZA DAVIS

We are excited about how our indoor season went, but we still have a lot more to accomplish in the o...
ELIZA DAVIS

While the overall picture remains unfortunate, there are bright pockets of hope. In schools where th...
ELIZA BYARD

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn i...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun o...
ELIZA COUPE

Did he bleed?
Well, of course. He took on a human form. That always makes them vulnerable, beco...
ELIZA VICTORIA

I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at t...
ELIZA COUPE

All they see is madness. It’s the same with the other men. They see my situation, not me.
ELIZA GRANVILLE

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his M...
ELIZA HAYWOOD

I love dressing up. As kids, my friends and I would dress up as the Spice Girls - Posh Spice was my ...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I like to wear colourful clothes because they make me feel happy: short-shorts with funky tights and...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the l...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be i...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I wouldn't doubt it for a second if any of these literature teachers had a hand-sculpted custom-made...
ELIZA GUBBINS

I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometime...
ELIZA COUPE

My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because whe...
ELIZA COUPE

I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.
ELIZA COUPE

I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scru...
ELIZA COUPE

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
ELIZA COUPE

I still have a crush on Johnny Depp, and I literally only started dating my husband because he looke...
ELIZA COUPE

Kids kill a show! It's, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show r...
ELIZA COUPE

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that charac...
ELIZA COUPE

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is r...
ELIZA COUPE

I really don't think plastic surgery is a good idea. People who've had it done don't loo...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I love shopping. I don't go on crazy 'I'm going shopping' sprees; I shop as I go alo...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I don't prepare for wearing a bikini; I always have a bit of a tummy.
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes - we should be free a...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn't r...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

I'm a very visually motivated person. Music is always going to be the thing I'm most motivat...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet.
ELIZA DUSHKU

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic somethi...
ELIZA DUSHKU

I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house.
ELIZA DUSHKU

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.
ELIZA DUSHKU

TV can be a long commitment.
ELIZA DUSHKU

I think I really thought I was a boy until I was ten years old because my parents divorced when I wa...
ELIZA DUSHKU

Vain mistaken mortals, who, valuing themselves on names and titles, suppose that the virtues of the ...
ELIZA PARSONS

I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly.
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and ...
ELIZA PARSONS

Rebecca woke up with her knees hurting and her fingers ice-cold, and the specifics of her life retur...
ELIZA VICTORIA

You said you’d cooperate.”
I knew I’d regret my promise, just not quite this soon. “You...
ELIZA CREWE

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of me...
ELIZA ''MOTHER'' STEWART

Respect your body. Eat well. Dance forever.
ELIZA GAYNOR MINDEN

This must be
what love is:

a pain so radiant
it cuts through all others.
SARA ELIZA JOHNSON

We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic ...
SAM WOOD

Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
SAM WOOD

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for ch...
SAM WOOD

While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, To...
SAM WOOD

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sand...
VICTORIA WOOD

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason...
NATALIE WOOD

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol ...
RON WOOD

No, I never ever considered myself attractive.
LANA WOOD

I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep trac...
LANA WOOD

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
LANA WOOD

When I get married it will be for keeps.
NATALIE WOOD

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
NATALIE WOOD

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish an...
NATALIE WOOD

I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
NATALIE WOOD

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting marri...
NATALIE WOOD

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
NATALIE WOOD

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
NATALIE WOOD

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human ...
NATALIE WOOD

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life r...
NATALIE WOOD

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, ...
NATALIE WOOD

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
NATALIE WOOD

I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
NATALIE WOOD

The constant attention is what is so difficult.
NATALIE WOOD

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
NATALIE WOOD

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
NATALIE WOOD

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie t...
NATALIE WOOD

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
NATALIE WOOD

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
NATALIE WOOD

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the tr...
NATALIE WOOD

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
NATALIE WOOD

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
NATALIE WOOD

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
NATALIE WOOD

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
NATALIE WOOD

We were descended from royalty.
NATALIE WOOD

By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that int...
JAKE WOOD

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
ELIJAH WOOD

You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
BEATRICE WOOD

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and...
BEATRICE WOOD

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrate...
BEATRICE WOOD

Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
BEATRICE WOOD

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
BEATRICE WOOD

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which does...
BEATRICE WOOD

I'm not too interested in books about India.
BEATRICE WOOD

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
BEATRICE WOOD

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
BEATRICE WOOD

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
BEATRICE WOOD

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and no...
BEATRICE WOOD

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOOD

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you ca...
BEATRICE WOOD

Sex is energy.
BEATRICE WOOD

I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOOD

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
BEATRICE WOOD

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on...
BEATRICE WOOD

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me w...
BEATRICE WOOD

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
BEATRICE WOOD

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin...
BEATRICE WOOD

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
BEATRICE WOOD

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
BEATRICE WOOD

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
BEATRICE WOOD

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
BEATRICE WOOD

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOOD

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artis...
ED WOOD

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now...
ED WOOD

Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
ED WOOD

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
ED WOOD

[The] legitimate office [of the human face] is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham

[The] legitimate office [of the human face] is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

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