Marquis de Sade Quotes
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
Quotes to Explore
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.
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You ever see guys with nothing on their desk? They always fail. I don’t know what it is. I’ve seen it for years.
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Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.
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Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.
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At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
