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I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career. -- Lindsay Lohan
Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for 'Kramer vs Kramer.' -- Wentworth Miller
Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water drops, Stain my man's cheeks. -- William Shakespeare
Why, Criminy Stain, I saidYou're a romantic.Oh, no, he said with a grinI'm fiendish and unscrupulous, a vicious killer and a thief and a bloodthirsty monster. And maybe a little romantic. But don't tell anyone, or my reputation's shot. -- Delilah S. Dawson
Your erotic,A memoir of pleasure.Caress the streets as through they held the touch of mink,Leaving only trails of stardust.Your eyes could Pierce hearts, leaving eternal scars of that moment,Moments so bittersweet they linger upon the tastebuds of those who dare glance.You, Stain eyes with curiosityI dare not blink. -- L.V. HALL
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. -- Saint Augustine
No speech can stain what is noble by nature. -- Sophocles
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. -- Samuel Beckett
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. -- William Ames
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. -- Samuel Beckett
I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show. -- Matt Stone
And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league. -- Boomer Esiason
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it. -- Neil Kinnock
I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover. -- John Malkovich
But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. -- John Gay
I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily. -- Rachel Zoe
One day I was in the grocery store, and I saw raspberries, and I was like, 'Oh, I can make a lip stain out of that.' -- Bethany Mota
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. -- Zane Grey
A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful. -- Martha Stewart
I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgiveness. -- Jimmy Swaggart
If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist. -- Hannah Storm
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. -- Bob Woodward
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. -- Mike Ferguson
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is a personal defilement. There are others, and I think I am one of them, who are entirely indifferent to where they live. -- J. G. Ballard
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. -- Ernst Mach
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be. -- William Throsby Bridges
People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up. -- Tom Waits
I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.' -- Aunjanue Ellis
red plastic rain her tears stain -- Kami Garcia
What is working stain, does not soil. -- Edmondo De Amicis
The stain of prejudice is often indelible. -- Gerry Spence
Only the heart without a stain knows ease. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Confidence is the stain they can't wipe off. -- Lil Wayne
Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood -- Robert Greene
The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity. -- Madeline Miller
Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress. -- Totie Fields
There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss. -- Anne Sexton
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. -- John Quincy Adams
There is moss on the wallsand the stain of thought and failure andwaiting -- Charles Bukowski
To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic. -- Sri Chinmoy
Only tears can hear the sound of pain when warm blood reddens discolored stain -- Munia Khan
Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason. -- Robert Graves
You worthless sonofabitch. You should never have been anything more than a cum stain! (Stryker) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice. -- Honore de Balzac
Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain. -- Sophie Swetchine
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon. -- Thomas Moore
As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party. -- Mara Liasson
Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin. -- Nathaniel Culverwell
He even dressed up for you. He only has one stain on his t-shirt.- Rylie Cruz -- Rose Pressey
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience -- Thomas a Kempis
Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. -- Charles Lamb
I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future. -- Jodi Picoult
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. -- Berthold Auerbach
The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers -- W. H. Auden
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. -- C. S. Lewis
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain. -- Theodore Dreiser
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence. -- Samuel Beckett
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky. -- Henry David Thoreau
What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. -- Daniel Handler
Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest. -- Josephine Lawrence
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? -- Philip Sidney
Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it. -- Art Spiegelman
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes. -- George William Russell
As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag. -- Alice Sebold
He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain! -- Tim Burton
Not a mark on it. (Joe) Yeah. Wanna check the backseat, where Steele is sitting? I'll bet there's a big stain there. (Tee) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels. -- Anthony of Padua
Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time. -- Terry Goodkind
I don't really care if my clothes are wrinkled or there's a stain on my shirt. Going out on the road, your clothes are dirty. -- Avril Lavigne
I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia. -- Heinrich Heine
I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can -- Sylvia Plath
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear. -- Edward Everett
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven. -- Robert Southey
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults. -- William Shakespeare
Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love. -- Greta Garbo
Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. -- John Milton
I stole a shirt off Jacques (Kallis) and a pullover off Harry (Paul Harris) that still had his hamburger stain on the front left side of it. -- Graeme Smith
I long to drift through turquoise skies;race the wind in rampant flight.Ruddy chains have framed my eyes,they seize my heart and stain the light. -- Craig Froman
Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings. -- Diane Ackerman
Pre-treating is a really important step for stain removal. It's best to treat stains right away, so blot fresh stains with a paper towel or a white rag. -- Clinton Kelly
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent. -- Ramakrishna
Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat. -- Meher Baba
When you go to a bar that has a black light, everybody looks cool. Except for me, because I was under the impression that the mustard stain came out. -- Mitch Hedberg
Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is. -- John Ruskin
In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering. -- Kofi Annan
Democrats are not angry about 9/11. Sad, maybe - sad that it didn't happen on Clinton's watch so his legacy would be more than a semen stain. But they're not angry. -- Ann Coulter
President Bush is in the hot seat over Iraqi pre-war intelligence. Remember the good ol' days when the only thing the president was trying to cover up was a stain? -- Craig Kilborn
Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind? -- Edward Abbey
We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer. -- Lauren Oliver
The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name! -- Robert Burns
Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. -- William Blake
How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd. -- John Webster
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.... -- Marge Piercy
Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat. --
The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body. -- Eduardo Galeano
I like raunchiness, not like in a biker-chick sort of a way, but like the girl can't help it. Little bruises, a few hairs out of place, a little stain here and there. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends? -- Johnny Cash
The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud. -- T. S. Eliot
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain. -- Jodi Picoult
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it. -- Peter Carey
Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branchâ??they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruitâ??death-ripened. We shall all end like themâ??just a stain in the snow. -- Lawrence Durrell

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