Actual Gravity

Famous quotes containing the words actual and/or gravity:

    “Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Here I sit down to form characters. One I intend to be all goodness; All goodness he is. Another I intend to be all gravity; All gravity he is. Another Lady Gish; All Lady Gish she is. I am all the while absorbed in the character. It is not fair to say—I, identically I, am anywhere, while I keep within the character.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)