Christian Quotes
Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.
I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.
What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.
There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.
As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.
It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.
Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.
Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.
I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.
A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.
I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?
For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.
If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.
My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.
I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.
I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.
And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.
A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
The risk element only came from acknowledging other people's attitudes toward it, and realizing that they considered it to be a risk for me to do.
In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.
It was just the two of us, inside there with just mirrors, all the way around us. Everywhere we looked, there were these two freaks, sitting at a table, eyeballing each other.
What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.
The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"
If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it.
I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.
I don't ever really sit back and look at roles I've taken and look at any similarities.
I never applied to any acting schools. I don't know if that's just bad reporting, or - sometimes I just make stuff up.
I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.