Bishop Briggs (Sarah Grace McLaughlin) Quotes

'River' is all about tension and release. It's about intimacy and solace. It's about staring someone in the face and not backing down.

Bishop Briggs

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• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Up
  • Down
  • Boat

• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Creativity

• I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Intelligent
  • River
  • Reflected

• 'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Family
  • Age
  • River

• I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Up
  • Poetry
  • Rain

• On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Big
  • Intimacy
  • Table

• We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Work
  • Art
  • Ocean

• I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Find
  • River
  • Rowing

• Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Girl
  • Sea
  • River

• I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Black
  • Interesting

• I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Acting

• Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Real
  • Day

• With 'Wind River,' I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy - accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it - without ever knowing what really happened.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Peace
  • Wind
  • River

• My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• I am not against any kind of physical intimacy on screen, but kissing is a big no unless it's with Jennifer. I'd like to kiss her on-screen as we do it at home, too. If we get paid for it, that's even better.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Home
  • Kiss
  • Intimacy

• I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Great
  • Science
  • English

• I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Walking

• Imagine that the lines an actress reads are a river that runs calmly along the surface of the earth. Then imagine that the actress are the earth, and that under the earth is another river, a wilder one whose current leaps in the opposite direction, whose roar is muted. Every time the actress speaks her lines, she must offer a glimpse of the river that runs beneath: the mysterious churn of her consciousness, the lawlessness of a person's doubts or desires.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Imagine
  • River
  • Direction

• Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Memories

• I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Problem
  • Benefits
  • Democracies

• 'River' is all about tension and release. It's about intimacy and solace. It's about staring someone in the face and not backing down.

  

  Bishop Briggs
  • River
  • Intimacy