Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
Quotes to Explore
-
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
-
The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
-
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
-
I don't like possessions.
-
There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
-
The world is always terrible.
-
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
-
There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
-
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
-
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
-
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
-
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
-
Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
-
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
-
As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
-
It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
-
I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
-
I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
-
Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
-
I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
-
I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
-
Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.
-
It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.
-
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
