Ed Wood Quotes

It's not enough to just do your best. You must continue to improve your best.

We walk the paths we choose.

To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.

Some people, perhaps those with more dignity and less rage gnawing at the roots of their being, are nicer as failures, For me, it was like descending a deep pit that had no bottom

That is the worst thing about despair: it is not constant, any more than love is.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.

The eye is to light as the soul is to God.

Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.

Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn’t sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You’re flatly not safe…

... In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive

But I was learning forgiveness didn’t have to be about granting absolution for sins but being able to find freedom from pain.

She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start

Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday.

Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound.

It's iron that can sharpen iron

All is as it should be.

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

Indeed, if their wristbands asked them the question: “What-Would-Jesus-Buy”—well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.

You can't teach kindness with a whip, Janus.

The innocent-sounding words “Yes, it’s close enough to walk” can easily lure the unsuspecting tourist into an exhausting day-long climb, requiring supplemental oxygen, crampons, and a pickax.

Man, you should write a book.’‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?

I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

The best stories are about a character who has a goal or noble quest and goes through hell to get it. Do you have a goal or quest like that in real life? Why not?

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.

My self-esteem is not tied to the approval of others.

What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.

But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.

Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.

In the midst of all of this perfect beauty, timeless since the days of Eve, it's the touch of God creating miracles, if in your heart you just believe.

Memories drifting and piling up quietly, like letters on the doormat of an empty house.

We cook, we fight, we win. That simple.

The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.

My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.

I don't know, it's stupid being 20, " she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind.

I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi, " Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl.

I love you, " I said to her. "From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But there's nothing I can do. I can't make a move.""Because of her?"I nodded.

DANTE: And what if you found out you were right? What if it meant that I could hurt you?RENEE: I would not say that I'm not scared. Everyone has the ability to hurt. It's the choice that matters.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me.

Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary’s greatest curatives —gratitude.