La La Anthony Quotes

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

I say it every day - I'm the luckiest man on earth

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

We were either gonna win the game or win the fight.

People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.

Face your worry and see it as an illusion. It cannot exist unless you give it power and give it life.

I don't believe a player is ever a finished product.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.