And Quotes

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.

To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.

If you're gonna take people on a journey that deals with some pretty heavy themes, I think you best have a sense of humor, here and there.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

John McDonnell is the Bear Bryant of track and field.

If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.

I was the law and order.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.

How beautiful the days, They come and go.

The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.

[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.

I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see rates below seven percent into early next year.

Walking back and forth also helps by creating the illusion that you are thinking of the routines on the spot, giving your performance a more spontaneous feeling.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

The real genres: good and bad.

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

I think its really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.

God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness.

If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.

We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind.

Life is light and consciousness. Beyond this world and other worlds, beyond time and space and dimension, beyond what we call duality, is God

Power is very much like the wind. It comes and goes; no one really owns it. People are foolish enough to think they possess power. You don't possess power, power possesses you. Power uses you.

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change.

Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.

Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.

He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.