And Quotes
To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'
That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.
It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.
My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.
We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.
No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.
Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.
I like clothes and fashion. It's a hobby for me and I really enjoy being part of it, so it's nice when people say: 'He can dress quite well.
Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.
The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my memories of growing up.
In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
I want to have young children although my mother and father are even now young sufficient to just take care of them.
There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.
The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.
You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world
Don't just reach for the stars. Grab a hold of one, grasp it tightly, and pull it into your heart and soul.
First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.
I didn't like writing just articles and things. So then I wandered around. I tried my hand at film and television and that was a worse fit because I don't really have a mind for that.
The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.
Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.
All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.
I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.
At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.